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Tonight comes Abel Tesfaye’s film, “Hurry Up Tomorrow.” It debuts on Rotten Tomatoes at 17%, totally rotten.
Lionsgate had held reviews until the very last minute lest aka the Weeknd has a tsunami of bad notices.
But 30 have been registered, and they are almost all negative. The movie has a 17% rating so far. The critics have severely panned it, calling it “vapid.”
The Rotten Tomatoes Audience Meter began at 83%. But now it’s at 77% and falling.
The film — described by those who’ve seen it as a companion to his album of the same name — looks like it will be as big a loser as Tesfaye’s HBO series, “The Idol.”
The Weeknd is not a movie maker. Someone has to tell him. He wrote the film and Trey Edward Shullts directed it.
Tesfaye is a great singer, however. The “Hurry Up Tomorrow” album didn’t yield any big singles, but it has managed to sell 1 million copies, half of which came from streaming. That’s not bad. Tesfaye is also a huge concert draw.
Hot current stars Barry Keoghan and Jenna Ortega are featured in the film, which we won’t see until it streams or is on a plane.
#HurryUpTomorrow – Easily one of the worst movies of the decade, a movie that can’t even be saved by a powerhouse of a performance by Jenna Ortega. Full review soon pic.twitter.com/5UzS1Im4zj
— . (@madandbroke) May 15, 2025
