Charli XCX speaks during the premiere of “The Moment” during the 2026 Sundance Film Festival at Eccles Center Theater on Jan. 23, 2026, in Park City, Utah.

PARK CITY, UTAH — There aren’t many people who can boast that they’ve claimed a whole summer, but it’s hard to argue with the fact that the summer of 2024 belonged to British singer Charli XCX. “Brat summer,” named after her most recent album, was an all-encompassing cultural phenomenon, the slime-green of her album cover pervading pop culture so thoroughly that it was adopted by Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign. 

Some pop stars would want that moment to last forever, which is the premise of “The Moment,” a new mockumentary that premiered Friday at the Sundance Film Festival from indie distributor A24 that parodies Charli’s reign at the top of pop culture. It’s a lively look inside what Charli’s life might be like, skewering the commercialization of the music industry with an astute eye. The pop star plays herself as a mercurial artist pushed and pulled between creative inspiration and financial motivation, launching a green........

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