New and Noteworthy: Movies

John Wick

"People keep asking if I'm back," Keanu Reeves growls in the trailer for his new hit-man revenge pic. "Yeah, I'm thinkin' I'm back," he adds. We shall see.

R

Stonehearst Asylum Ben Kingsley appears as the superintendent of the titular mental institution - with an office that, perhaps tellingly, sports a cuckoo clock - in this gothic adaptation of an Edgar Allan Poe tale. Kate Beckinsale, Michael Caine, Jim Sturgess, and David Thewlis also star. PG-13

Whiplash Miles Teller is a gifted jazz drummer enrolled at the most prestigious music school in New York - and the latest prodigy to go under the rigorous tutelage of a most-demanding instructor, played by character actor extraordinaire J.K. Simmons. R

- Steven Rea