Forget BRAT summer. Charli XCX is singlehandedly making this summer a cinephile summer.
Charli XCX has had a busy year following the success of her Grammy Award-winning album “BRAT.” Despite her packed schedule, the singer still finds time to share insights into the many movies she enjoys watching in her spare time. She has been keeping track of her film-watching adventures on her now-public Letterboxd account.
Recently, Charli XCX started creating informal summaries of her favorite recent movie picks on TikTok. On this platform, she also welcomes suggestions from her fans. In a recent video, she lauded four films and documentaries that she awarded a five-star rating on Letterboxd. She even made a special mention of the new horror sequel, “28 Years Later,” by Danny Boyle and Alex Garland.
“Danny Boyle is back!” she declared.
Other films that got honorable mentions in her recap include Signs, Carnal Knowledge, Charlotte Forever, Magic Farm, and Lux Aerna.
Her Letterboxd profile, which fans uncovered in December 2024, indicates that she is well on her way to surpassing her previous year’s record of movies watched in 2024. In 2025, she has already logged 114 films, compared to the 212 she watched in 2024. Now, followers can keep up with the movie-watching journey of this celebrated artist.
Scroll down to check out some of the movies Charli XCX highlighted in her latest recap.
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Everett Collection Charli XCX rated the 1995 documentary Unzipped five stars on Letterboxd, calling it her “favorite thing” that she’s seen this month, so far. The documentary film offers a candid look at the creation and launch of Isaac Mizrahi’s 1994 fall collection, featuring appearances from that era’s leading supermodels and celebs.
“The thing that this documentary does really well is it really showcases the way an artist goes through their creative process,” Charli XCX says in her recent TikTok. “It showcases the surges of inspiration, it showcases the self-doubt, the vulnerability and then the triumph at the end when you really felt that youâve achieved something truly amazing. It’s full of passion, this documentary, and kind of one of the quintessential fashion documentaries of the mid ’90s.”
In her Letterboxd review, however, her thoughts on the film were a bit more colorful. “Itâs giving PERSONALITY and it just emphasizes that unfortunately most people these days are so fucking boring,” she wrote in her review.
WHERE TO STREAM UNZIPPED
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Photo: Arrow Charli XCX also praised the 1995 documentary Catwalk, which follows a season in the life of 25-year-old supermodel Christy Turlington as she jets from Milan to Paris and New York. The singer said the documentary was “really, really honest,” and highlighted her relationship with other models of her time, such as Naomi Campbell and Carla Bruni.
WHERE TO STREAM CATWALK
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Photo: A24; Courtesy Everett Collection The most surprising part of Charli XCX’s Letterboxd recap was when she announced she recently watched The Bling Ring for the fourth time.
“I feel like it feels more culturally relevant every single time that I rewatch it,” she says in the TikTok recap. “When I watch this film, it feels like Iâm reading a salacious gossip magazine which I kind of think is the entire point. Also, I think the fashion is obviously back… it’s giving high fashion.”
She reiterated her love for the film in her five-star review on Letterboxd in which she wrote, “this movie is aging like a fine wine! better with every watch. ps i miss my blackberry xx”
WHERE TO STREAM THE BLING RING
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Photo: Courtesy of Everett Collection After watching Robert Bresson’s 1967 French tragedy Mouchette, Charli XCX turned to his 1966 film Au Hasard Balthazar.
“Watch this if you want to cry. Because I did,” she tells her fans. Despite the tears, she still rated both films five stars on Letterboxd.
WHERE TO WATCH AU HASARD BALTHAZAR
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Photo: Miya Mizuno /© Columbia Pictures / Courtesy Everett Collection Charli XCX didn’t share many thoughts in her recap about the star-studded sequel to 28 Days Later that is playing now in theaters â but it still got her endorsement.
“Oh, and I watched 28 Years Later. I actually watched this between soundcheck and performing at Dua Lipaâs show, I just needed to run across the road and see this,” she shared in her TikTok, before declaring: “Danny Boyle is back.”
28 Years Later only recently premiered in theaters so it will be some time before it becomes available to stream on demand. However, the 2002 original 28 Days Later starring Cillian Murphy is streaming now on Pluto TV.
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