Movie · 2025 · Music, Thriller, Drama · 1h 45m · R · English
Curator score: 0.2/10 (92.3K ratings)
Reality lies deeper than you think.
Overview
A musician plagued by insomnia is pulled into an odyssey with a stranger who begins to unravel the very core of his existence.
Ratings
Curator score: 0.2/10
IMDb: 4.2/10
Letterboxd: 1.80/5
Metacritic: 29
TMDB: 5.1/10
Director
Trey Edward Shults
Production
Manic Phase, Live Nation Studios
Cast
The Weeknd, Jenna Ortega, Barry Keoghan, Riley Keough, Ash T, Paul L. Davis, Sebastian Villalobos, Roman Mitichyan, Ibrahim Ivan Troy Simonin, Kiara Liz, Olga Safari, Michael Buhen, Victoria McGrath, Roy Williams Jr., Trey Edward Shults, Edgar Villamor, Emma Vaughn, Dushaun Thompson, Josh Stone, Evan Shafran
Curator Review
Verdict
A glossy, self-mythologizing music-thriller with a strong visual premise but little dramatic payoff. The film seems more interested in persona and mood than in character, and the result plays as indulgent, thinly written, and unintentionally funny more often than compelling.
Best for
Viewers curious about celebrity vanity projects and pop-star image-making
Fans of surreal, neon-lit psychological dramas who don’t mind weak storytelling
People interested in watching a misfire for its camp value
Skip if
You want a tight thriller with real suspense
You’re looking for emotionally grounded character work
You’re turned off by self-conscious, ego-driven filmmaking
You prefer films that earn their symbolism and atmosphere
Overview
Hurry Up Tomorrow has the shape of a psychological descent, but it never finds the nerve to make that descent feel dangerous or revealing. The premise promises insomnia, identity collapse, and a stranger who destabilizes the lead’s reality; in practice, it feels like a thin concept stretched over a vanity project that mistakes self-regard for depth.
Worth noting
Trey Edward Shults can usually conjure unease and interior pressure, but here the material seems to resist him. The movie leans on mood, performance pose, and symbolic gestures without building a convincing emotional center. Instead of tension, it often lands as awkward, overcooked, or accidentally comic.
Bottom line
For viewers drawn to celebrity psychodramas, it may have a certain morbid curiosity. But as a thriller or drama, it’s underpowered, and as a piece of musical stardom mythology, it feels more like branding than art.
Top Letterboxd reviews
karrigan (2★) · 11589 likes
A man should never be allowed to write and fund a movie about himself, starring himself as himself
dkis (0.5★) · 6397 likes
Like watching someone try to kiss their own reflection and call it art.
maxipad123 (3★) · 4703 likes
I am sorry to announce that he does his tongue flicking thing in the first 5 minutes of the movie
Dávid Klág (1★) · 3826 likes
you wanna be high for this
franci (1.5★) · 3419 likes
what 13 year old me thought would happen at a one direction concert