Erupcja
1-2 Special | Release Date: April 17, 2026 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
71
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
Positive:
13
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
IGNChase HutchinsonApr 16, 2026
It’s the least Charli XCX movie yet, with her disappearing into her role so completely that it's often breathtaking to witness, but it's also the one that marks her arrival as an essential voice. Read full review
83
The PlaylistGregory EllwoodSep 5, 2025
The movie feels like a cinematic palate cleanser the closer it comes to its inevitable ending. Read full review
83
The A.V. ClubKatie RifeSep 5, 2025
Pete Ohs’ best film yet. Read full review
80
IONCINEMA.comKevin JagernauthApr 17, 2026
The characters in Pete Ohs delightful Erupcja are similarly caught between past and present in this summery, loose-limbed look at relationships under scaffolding. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleApr 17, 2026
The edgy appeal of Erupcja is in the way it maps humans as molecules and electrons, fizzed by location, inspired by connection, driven to hover, fuse and release. The characters may get bounced around a bit and some will feel stranded, but you’ll know you’ve been taken somewhere new by this charming indie. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterJourdain SearlesSep 7, 2025
The standout performance here is Charli XCX as Bethany, channeling her party girl persona into a character who approaches her wanderings as an introspective vision quest, searching for a deeper truth within herself. Read full review
80
The New YorkerRichard BrodySep 4, 2025
The spoken narrative, with its spare, literary diction and vigorous precision, seems to add details and even scenes to the image-scape. The copious observations and reflections that the speaker relates expand the movie—a mere seventy-one minutes long—into a work of novelistic amplitude. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comRobert DanielsApr 17, 2026
Told in 71 minutes, the breezy melodrama moves through reality and happenstance with a winking glee that recalls the gentle works of Bill Forsyth—albeit with less thematic heft. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineRoss McIndoeMar 1, 2026
While it isn’t an overt examination of it in the manner of The Moment, the film does feel like a natural cinematic extension of Charli XCX’s melancholy party-girl persona. Read full review
75
IndieWireDavid EhrlichSep 5, 2025
Charli xcx’s casting adds a metatextual richness to the movie and vice-versa, as the friction between her pop star persona and Bethany’s somnambulant everywoman deepens the sense of a woman divided between the superreal and the literal, the spectacular and the mundane. Read full review
70
Rolling StoneDavid FearApr 16, 2026
Erupcja knows what’s it’s working with, and how to tap into something bigger than itself. Read full review
70
The New York TimesBrandon YuApr 16, 2026
Although Charli and Góra can’t quite translate enough layers between them to make this film really bruise, this is a pleasantly slight work that doesn’t overstay its welcome. Read full review
70
Next Best PictureEma SasicSep 7, 2025
Though the film can feel a bit too unstructured at times, it’s made all the better with a charming film debut from Charli xcx and a cast of characters who keep the energy high at all times. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMichael OrdoñaMay 4, 2026
At its best, “Erupcja” feels truthful, even insightful. At its worst, it’s an off-putting selfie of the chronically self-absorbed, like a big-screen “Girls.” It does offer an interesting perspective on its case of apparent synchronicity late in the film, but leaves plenty for viewers to ponder on their own. Read full review
40
The GuardianAdrian HortonSep 5, 2025
The initially alluring casualness of Ohs’s project fades quickly into a mildly irksome shallowness – lots of unearned and unconvincing staring, docile conversations, should-be evocative images that do not evoke. Read full review
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