Plenty of pop stars have made apologies for concert snafus or private peccadilloes that inadvertently became public. Prior to "Hurry Up Tomorrow," it's hard to remember another occasion when they dramatized those experiences in a feature 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.