What to see: New movies in theaters this weekend

Looking for a good movie this weekend? Here are the latest releases, trailers and reviews from Paste BN.

John Wick

About 90 minutes into the non-stop bloodbath that is John Wick, a Russian mobster begs the vengeful title character "No more guns! No more bullets!" It's a plea that any sentient being watching the film might have made about an hour earlier. (* ½ out of four stars)

Trailer: 'John Wick'

Keanu Reeves stars as an ex-hitman who comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him in 'John Wick.'

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Ouija

Nothing very spirited happens in Ouija, a deadly dull and overly familiar movie about summoning ghosts that draws upon nearly every horror movie cliché. Even if the Ouija board accessory is shoehorned into the picture, you've seen this movie before. Many times. It's essentially the story of evil spirits emanating from a dead person in a haunted house and terrorizing teenagers. (* out of four stars)

Trailer: 'Ouija'

After the death of a friend, a group of friends must confront their most terrifying fears when they awaken the dark powers of an ancient spirit board.

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Camp X-Ray

Hidden among the tabloid exposés, paparazzi stalking and everything else that goes with the Kristen Stewart Celebrity Experience is the fact that she's actually a pretty good actress. There's more to her skill set than the lip-biting and fawning over vampires that comprised much of her Bella Swan in the Twilight movies, and Stewart shows it in the gripping military dramaCamp X-Ray. (*** out of four stars)

Trailer: 'Camp X-ray'

A young woman joins the military to be part of something bigger than herself and her small-town roots. Instead, she ends up as a new guard at Guantanamo Bay and strikes up an unusual friendship with one of the detainees.

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Laggies

Director Lynn Shelton feels a quarter-life crisis is rife for as much drama and comedy nowadays as it was in the 1960s when Benjamin Braddock was getting seduced by Mrs. Robinson. Shelton's Laggies might focus on the millennial generation, yet its story of 28-year-old Megan (Keira Knightley) being caught between adolescence and adulthood puts a female take on the 1967 Dustin Hoffman-Anne Bancroft comedy-drama as well as old-school bromances such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Trailer: 'Laggies'

Keira Knightley stars as a young woman who reacts to her boyfriend's marriage proposal by pretending to go on a business retreat but she actually hangs out with a new 16-year old friend.

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White Bird in a Blizzard

It's blank, pale and flat when it needs to be probing and suspenseful. A hybrid that spans an erotic coming-of-age story, missing person mystery and melancholy saga of grief, it seems more caught up in a static aesthetic than telling a compelling story. (** out of four stars)

Trailer: 'White Bird in a Blizzard'

Shailene Woodley stars as a teenage girl whose life is thrown into chaos when her mother disappears.

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Other recent releases:

Army flick Fury tells a story of World War II tanks and the pilots that drive them. (*** out of four stars)

Race takes center stage in the satirical Dear White People. (*** out of four stars)

Old superheroes try to fly in Birdman. (***½ out of four stars)

The Book of Life gives viewers a colorful look at animated love. (**½ out of four stars)

Don't let Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day's title fool you. It's anything but terrible. (**½ out of four stars)

Bill Murray and Melissa McCarthy take the screen in St. Vincent. (**½ out of four stars)

Bang goes the drum and the performances in drama Whiplash. (**** out of four stars)

Marriage and a potential murder make Gone Girla must-see thriller. (**** out of four stars)