Jenna Ortega
is presently driving on a wave of success following her roles within the Scream franchise and Netflix juggernaut Wednesday, however maybe she ought to have skipped showing in The Weeknd’s new thriller thriller, Hurry Up Tomorrow
– as least so far as critics are involved.
Hurry Up Tomorrow tells the story of a musician who finds his life unraveling as he’s drawn right into a chaotic journey with a stranger. Based mostly on the concept of The Weeknd
(Abel Tesfaye) and his struggles with fame, the film additionally stars Barry Keoghan. Nonetheless, regardless of two heavy-hitting stars, the movie debuted on Rotten Tomatoes with a 0% Tomatometer rating after its first 14 critiques. That has since improved, and on the time of writing sits on a 17% rating from 30 critiques. Nonetheless not precisely a constructive endorsement of the film.
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Nonetheless, within the regular twist of Rotten Tomatoes scores, audiences have to date given the movie a vastly totally different 77% Popcornmeter ranking. So, the true query is why such a distinction, and which is extra prone to be the right information for most individuals?
‘Hurry Up Tomorrow’ Critiques Are Extremely Blended
First, in case you are an enormous fan of The Weeknd, then the consensus is that you’d in all probability be more than pleased to spend a few hours within the firm of the emotional singer. In case you are not, then you might be in all probability going to take a seat by way of one of many worst two hours of your cinematic yr.
Critics have been extremely harsh on the film for the easy motive that many see it as nothing greater than a “self-indulgent vainness challenge.” A number of critiques name it “excruciating,” “uninteresting,” and, within the eloquent wording of Flickering Fantasy’s Robert Kojder, “all he has proven on this movie is that his head is up his personal ass seven days per week.”
Nonetheless, there have been some critiques, similar to that of James Preston Poole of Discussing Movie, which see it as a “wholly distinctive cinematic expertise,” whereas Cinapse’s Dan Tabor’s constructive overview says:
“Tomorrow is a cult movie within the making that works not solely as a bit of transgressive artwork, however as an artist forsaking his arduous partying persona and trying to the longer term.”
Whether or not this implies the movie is a misunderstood masterpiece of the longer term or not is one thing that can be determined in time. For now, many followers of The Weeknd have discovered the perception into the lifetime of the person behind the performer an intriguing and enthralling piece of cinema, however there are others who’ve joined critics in feeling that the film was extra of an endurance take a look at versus an entertaining providing. A number of critiques level out that with out Ortega’s presence there can be even much less to take pleasure in within the film, and the shortage of any plot makes the entire thing really feel like a really elaborate, very lengthy music video.
One factor for sure is that Hurry Up Tomorrow is the sort of film that may proceed to trigger debate for lengthy after it has dropped out of cinemas, and that’s one thing true of many a cult basic of the previous. Whether or not The Weeknd’s film can achieve that sort of recognition should wait to search out a solution, however it appears unlikely it will be bothering the highest of the chart this weekend regardless.
Supply: Rotten Tomatoes
Hurry Up Tomorrow
- Launch Date
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Could 16, 2025
- Runtime
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106 minutes
- Director
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Trey Edward Shults
- Writers
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Reza Fahim, Trey Edward Shults, The Weeknd
- Producers
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Kevin Turen, The Weeknd, Harrison Kreiss