It’s been 12 years since Gregg Araki’s last film, White Bird in a Blizzard (2014), a work that felt only faintly recognizable as a Gregg Araki picture. I Want Your Sex not only serves as his first feature since then, but also marks a major return to form for the auteur. It’s refreshing to see a movie with Araki’s signature style on the big screen in 2026, and equally refreshing to see a film embrace horniness and sexuality with such unapologetic enthusiasm. It’s as if Gregg Araki heard the discourse about how Gen Z wants less sex in movies and TV and decided to push back. With I Want Your Sex, he seems to be shouting from the rooftops that there’s nothing wrong with being horny and that we need to make movies sexual again.

There’s been a lot of controversy surrounding Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic 1847 novel Wuthering Heights, largely centered around the decision to whitewash the character of Heathcliff by casting Jacob Elordi in the role. However, almost every adaptation of the novel thus far has cast a white actor in the role, with Andrea Arnold’s 2011 adaptation being one of the rare exceptions. Between the casting, anachronistic costume designs, and original songs by Charli xcx, it’s clear even before audiences step into the theater that this version of Wuthering Heights isn’t concerned with being faithful to the novel or the time period in which it takes place. Anyone who walks into Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights expecting an accurate adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel is setting themselves up for major disappointment.

Over the past year, Charli xcx has started to dabble in acting, with performances in Julia Jackman’s 100 Nights of Hero, Pete Ohs’ Erupcja, and Romain Gavras’ The Sacrifice. She has two films premiering at this year’s Sundance Film Festival: Gregg Araki’s I Want Your Sex and Aidan Zamiri’s The Moment. So far, she’s made some incredibly inspired choices with the films she’s been in. What makes The Moment different from her previous roles is that this time she’s playing a fictionalized version of herself. But that doesn’t make it any less inspired. What’s so fascinating about The Moment is that while other popstars have capitalized on their tours with concert films or behind-the-scenes documentaries, Charli opted for something entirely different after the success of brat summer: a mockumentary.