Two years after he starred in and co-created the much-derided HBO original series, "The Idol," Abel Tesfaye, a.k.a. The Weeknd, is back with a new, ambitious visual project, "Hurry Up Tomorrow." The film,

As The Weeknd, Abel Tesfaye is a Grammy-winning, Super Bowl-playing phenom. The longtime movie lover fulfills a new dream with "Hurry Up Tomorow."

That September night in 2022 marked a turning point for Tesfaye. He mines the scene in “Hurry Up Tomorrow, ” where, ironically, it arrives too late. The tedium of an incoherent first act paints the charismatic performer — one of the last few decades' most popular — as an unempathetic protagonist in a nonlinear and nonsensical world.