For a few years, the British singer tried to create herself a movie career, appearing in many movies either for voice acting or as supporting characters. Now, she has decided to take matters into her own hands by producing and giving her lived story for her new movie.
The story brings back echoes of the past, after the end of the BRAT summer in 2024, Charli prepares herself for the beginning of her arena tour. Meanwhile her label, Atlantic Record, insists that she continues promoting her BRAT album, using means that she doesn't really enjoy. Add to this artistic differences with the director of her concert and her friends cause her to be very anxious even though she tries to maintain her popularity.
It is filmed as a mockumentary in the style of The Office and you would understand that the story is mostly a big ad for her album, but is also supposed to give a look into music star mental health. For me, her anxiety is exploited far too often, at least 90% of the film is composed of sweating close-ups of every character.
Therefore the comedy scenes are not well executed and lack actual scripted comedy like a normal mockumentary would have.
Charli seems to be the most stressed person that ever existed, her acting skills are too focused on one specific emotion, which makes her look too unstable to be relatable. Therefore the comedy scenes are not well executed and lack actual scripted comedy like a normal mockumentary would have. The directing leaves little room for the minimalist cinematography which is hardly present in the film.
She’s not the first music artist who has expanded to movies. Less than a year ago in May 2025, The Weeknd had a similar project with the film Hurry Up Tomorrow, that he wrote. The film attracted bad critics, as did his HBO series The Idol. Charli XCX may be reproducing the same unfolding, which could give a bad reputation to the singer switching sector.
However, other music artists know their capacities and have chosen original projects. Many of these happened in 2025, like Bad Bunny in Happy Gilmore 2 & Caught Stealing, Tyler The Creator in Marty Supreme, or ASAP Rocky in If I Had Legs I'd Kick You.
Maybe what to learn with this movie is that no matter how famous or successful a singer is, the gift of filmmaking and acting isn't awarded to anyone. Thus for everyone's sake, please stay in the music stage and think twice before throwing millions in a self produced project!