Hurry Up Tomorrow
Lionsgate | Release Date: May 16, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
29
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 25 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
6
Negative:
17

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonMay 15, 2025
Hurry Up Tomorrow, is a risk-taking experience, a David “Lynchian” fever dream of a movie that’s as visually marvelous as it is head-scratching. It’s a “Purple Rain” for the “Euphoria” generation, and you can’t take your eyes off it. Read full review
67
Original-CinJim SlotekMay 15, 2025
This is not a rousing movie that people are going to come away from energized. Still, it’s an interesting approach to an extended ad for an album. Read full review
50
IGNToussaint EganMay 16, 2025
It’s no Purple Rain – though Jenna Ortega is a much better onscreen foil for Tesfaye than Apollonia was for Prince – but it at least manages to find a handful of visually stimulating moments amid the vapidity. Read full review
50
Screen RantMae AbdulbakiMay 15, 2025
Hurry Up Tomorrow isn’t awful. It stays at the surface, really afraid to interrogate any deeper than required, but it has its moments and aesthetic flair. Read full review
50
ColliderJeff EwingMay 15, 2025
It's clearly intended to be a companion to and showcase of the simultaneously released album instead of a fleshed-out, standalone film. Regrettably, it never lets the audience forget that fact, feeling far more like a long music video than a feature film. Read full review
40
Film ThreatAlan NgMay 29, 2025
Ultimately, Hurry Up Tomorrow is an example of style over substance. Its visuals try to shock and awe while leaving its narrative a confusing mess. Read full review
40
EmpireGavia Baker-WhitelawMay 19, 2025
Despite some impressive woozy visuals and a soundtrack of chart-topping music, there’s not much to recommend this derivative pop-star drama. Read full review
40
The GuardianAndrew LawrenceMay 15, 2025
Tomorrow is too murky, meandering and self-indulgent an inside joke for audiences to remember it for more than its smirking moments. In time the Weeknd may come to regret this too, a missed opportunity. Read full review
38
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliMay 19, 2025
Part music video, part bizarro psychological thriller, and part David Lynch-inspired descent into existential purgatory (I kept looking for Michael J. Anderson), the film’s weirdness is sometimes extreme enough to exert an almost hypnotic attraction. But, as good as he may be on stage and in a music studio, The Weeknd (a.k.a. Abel Tesfaye) is not a good actor. Read full review
38
The Associated PressMaria ShermanMay 15, 2025
Woven throughout is some conversation about absent fathers and fear of abandonment, with unearned delivery and first-draft acuity — something gesturing at depth without piercing the surface. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineMark HansonMay 15, 2025
The film desperately tries to convince us that it’s peeling back the layers of the Weeknd’s persona in order to show you what’s really going on inside his head. But, in defiance of Anima’s wishes, Hurry Up Tomorrow lacks the honesty to confront what’s there. Read full review
37
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanMay 16, 2025
The film has the whiff of easy paycheck. It looks glossy but is empty. It sheds light without gaining insight. Read full review
35
The Daily BeastNick SchagerMay 16, 2025
A feature-length ego-stroke of monumental hubris that instantly assumes pole position in the race for year’s worst movie. Read full review
30
VarietyTodd GilchristMay 15, 2025
Hurry Up Tomorrow bears all the signs of pop star hubris masquerading as artistic candor, despite game performances by Jenna Ortega and Barry Keogan to prop up the budding thespian. Read full review
25
IndieWireCharles BramescoMay 15, 2025
A viewer may find themselves appreciating how the non-visual element of music allows figurative language to retain some wisp of mystery, whereas onscreen it’s made to wear its significance in blatant, artless ways. Read full review
25
Movie NationRoger MooreMay 15, 2025
Endless, dizzying 360 degree pans, hand-held on-his-way-to-the-stage snippets and jolting, beads-of-sweat/strings-of-spit closeups and a cranked up score can’t hide the vacuity of it all. Read full review
20
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleMay 17, 2025
It won’t slam the door on Tesfaye’s movie ambitions, but as a bid to conquer the big screen, it’s an off-putting, see-what-sticks wallow that treats the power of cinema like a midconcert costume change. Read full review
20
New York Magazine (Vulture)Fran HoepfnerMay 17, 2025
The film is one-half Sound of Metal and one-half Misery: Unfortunately, those movies already exist. Read full review
20
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckMay 15, 2025
This is the sort of movie in which even the opening credits, which continue until nearly the half-hour mark, are unbearably pretentious. Read full review
20
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Brad WheelerMay 15, 2025
It is a slow-moving, self-insistent and exhausting trip. The end can’t come soon enough. Read full review
20
SlashfilmWitney SeiboldMay 15, 2025
We're expected to find the Weeknd's melancholy entertaining. It isn't. Nor is Hurry Up Tomorrow. It's just awful.  Read full review
20
The New York TimesBrandon YuMay 15, 2025
Underneath the blinding lights, the Weeknd has always told us, is a hollow core. In that regard, the movie has mirrored the music. Read full review
16
Entertainment WeeklyJordan HoffmanMay 15, 2025
Bad movies come and go, but Hurry Up Tomorrow presents the Weeknd as so needy and so irritating that it may have lasting effects. The next time one of his songs comes up on a playlist, I may hit fast-forward. I've spent enough time with this guy. Read full review
16
The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerMay 15, 2025
The movie is 105 minutes long and would feel stretched thin even if cut down to the cutscene bookends of a music video. It is a thing you can see, technically. Read full review
12
RogerEbert.comClint WorthingtonMay 15, 2025
Hurry Up Tomorrow takes its star’s caterwauling about how hard it is to be famous and heartbroken for granted, and expects its audience to roll with every self-inflicted wound. It’s vapid, meandering, and insistent on its own profundity as a tale of an artist reckoning with fame. Read full review
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