TheWeeknd’s film nerdiness is his most personally endearing trait. Before he became one of the biggest pop stars on the planet, the singer born Abel Tesfaye was a homeless teenager in Toronto who found temporary solace in the aisles of a local boutique movie rental store called Queen Video. Through cinema, Tesfaye learned how to create a world: his visual identities, from his groundbreaking early mixtapes to his diamond-selling present, have a depth that goes beyond your average pop star’s eras. His jump to feature films felt inevitable, but also promising.⁠ ⁠ Hurry Up Tomorrow, his first feature-length due in theaters May 16, is that leap. A companion piece with the 2024 album of the same name, the psychological horror-drama stars Tesfaye as a fictionalized version of himself who’s sent into a mental tailspin after losing his voice onstage (this is based on a real event in 2022 when Tesfaye was forced to end a show in California when he was suddenly unable to sing). The film is co-wri...