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Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week Kendrick Lamar shakes the music world with a surprise album, Rosé slows it down in a soul-baring ballad, and Ariana Grande makes her dreams come true with a highlight from the Wicked soundtrack.

Kendrick Lamar feat. Sza, “Luther” (YouTube)

Kendrick Lamar, “Man at the Garden” (YouTube)

Rosé, “Number One Girl” (YouTube)

Ariana Grande, “Popular” (YouTube)

Jack Harlow, “Hello Miss Johnson” (YouTube)

Tyla, “Tears” (YouTube)

Banks, “Best Friends” (YouTube)

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On his new album, Quevedo lets his emotions run free. On Thursday, the Spanish trap star released his second album, Buenas Noches, inspired by the late-night reflections of the last few years. He also dropped the video for his single, “Kassandra.”

“This album reflects everything I experience in the quiet hours after midnight when I say goodnight to the world,” Quevedo said in a press release about the LP. “It’s an album that explains my new way of life and everything around me.”

Aside from the single “Duro,” the...

In 2016, documentarian Roger Ross Williams made a short film about Saúl Armendáriz, an American-born, openly gay wrestler known as Cassandro, who was nicknamed the "Liberace of Lucha Libre." Seven years later, Williams explores the same subject in his first scripted feature "Cassandro," this time with "Y tu mamá también" and "Werewolf By Night" actor Gael García Bernal in the lead role. The result is a steadily entertaining character piece, full of impressive lucha libre sequences and anchored by a strong lead performance from García Bernal.

As the movie opens, Saúl prepares to wrestle in a makeshift ring in an auto parts shop in Juárez, Mexico. His Lucha Libre character is El Topo, a boring henchman who gets pummeled by Gigántico, the brutish local favorite. Saúl likes his work but yearns for better storylines and more exciting matches. Gigántico, he says, has "no poetry," no sense of showmanship. He wants to...

Editor’s note: This review was originally published at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Prime Video releases the film in select theaters on Friday, September 15 and on its streaming platform on Friday, September 22.

At once hypermasculine and flamboyant, Mexican lucha libre has for long been a popular form of entertainment for the masses. An escape from the burdens of poverty and real violence, the spectacle features brightly clad heroes known as técnicos who personify the forces of good. Their adversaries, the rudos, play easily recognizable bad guys one can also cheer for. Their duels inside the ring display as much artistry as they do physical prowess.

In this larger-than-life performance of testosterone-fueled fracas, of bodies flying through the air, choreographed uppercuts, and arranged victories; the emergence of gay wrestler Saúl Armendáriz (stage name: Cassandro) in the 1980s, came as a shockwave against homophobia. Deceptively delicate in appearance, reclaiming stereotypes with colorful defiance,...

The two protagonists from “Assassin’s Creed Odyssey” each have new Gamescom trailers, and both were uploaded to Ubisoft North America’s official Youtube channel Tuesday.

In “Assassin’s Creed Odyssey,” players can choose to play as a male or female protagonist. The two new cinematic trailers are very similar, but it’s exciting to see Kassandra, the female heroine, in action. The “Assassin’s Creed” series has had female playable characters in the past, but the addition of a woman warrior in the context of ancient Greece feels like fresh territory.

What’s clear from both trailers – whether players choose to play as Kassandra or Alexios – is that it looks like “Assassin’s Creed Odyssey” is going to be a bloody time – multiple land battle sequences are shown off, as well as a fiery battle at sea.

The Kassandra trailer is above, and you can check out Alexios’s trailer below.