“Effortlessly edgy and iconic” - Fans react as Charli XCX stuns in new Criterion Closet appearance

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Charli XCX at the Cannes Film Festival (Image via Getty)

A new image from Charli XCX's visit to the Criterion Closet is circulating online, with various accounts, including the fan account @xcxsource, sharing it on X on Friday, October 17. It comes a couple of days after Criterion shared on their Instagram page about her visit and some of her picks from their collection.

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In the new photo, the Apple singer is looking behind her back at the camera with a cheeky smile, donning an all-black leather outfit. She posed among Criterion's collection of films.

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Charli XCX's fans quickly took to social media to praise the singer's style, with one X user saying that she looked "effortlessly edgy and iconic as always."

"Charli XCX absolutely slays in the Criterion Closet! Effortlessly edgy and iconic as always," the user wrote.
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More of them shared how they adored her style and the fact that she visited Criterion Closet, which prides itself on having a collection of over 1700 films from around the world. One fan said that Charli was looking like the "future of pop," while someone else said that she was sparkling and was wondering what her secret was.

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More fans praised her pseudo photoshoot in the film archive, with one commenter saying that she made posing in a storage room like a Vogue photoshoot or a fashion runway.

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Per Criterion Collection on Instagram, the singer has several picks from their archive, including Céline and Julie Go Boating, Basquiat, The Shrouds, and Gregg Araki's Teen Apocalypse Trilogy. They will be sharing more of the singer's film picks at a later date.


Charli XCX's debut film earns a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score

Charli XCX isn't only making waves in the music scene. She's also making headlines in the movie world. As Vanity Fair pointed out in its October 14 feature of the Brat singer, she has seven movies coming out, including three that debuted at the Toronto and Venice film festivals back in September.

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Charli XCX at the 2025 Met Gala (Image via Getty)
Charli XCX at the 2025 Met Gala (Image via Getty)

One of those movies is 100 Nights of Hero, a fantasy film starring Emma Corrin, which premiered in Venice on September 6. While it took some time to earn a score on Rotten Tomatoes, the movie reached a 100% rating from critics as of October 18, although there are only ten reviews from critics so far.

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100 Nights of Hero is set in medieval times and follows a noblewoman who is unhappy with her life and has her fidelity towards her husband tested after he challenges a visiting friend to try to seduce her. The movie is coming to cinemas on December 5.

Other Charli XCX movies that already made their premiere at film festivals include the indie film Erupjca and the eco-satire starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Evans, Sacrifice. The singer will also have a lead role in the A24 film The Moment, which she described to Vanity Fair as a "2024 period piece" that is "the realest depiction of the music industry" that she has ever seen.

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It also stars Alexander Skarsgård, Kylie Jenner, Rosanna Arquette, and more, and is coming to theaters sometime in 2026.


Stay tuned for more news and updates on Charli XCX and other musical artists as the year progresses.

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