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,

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.

In Trey Edward Shults' thinly drawn portrait of the artist, it would appear both star and subject is trading old indulgences for new navel-gazing.