This is an accomplished gang of songwriter-producers, but the end result is Weeknd music: falsetto nihilism dressed in an Armani suit.

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The Adam Sandler crime drama, a hit in Telluride and Toronto, has "real cinephile" the Weeknd singing — and fighting — in "punk"-ier 2012. Much was made of the fact that Abel Tesfaye’s name showed up ...