Friday’s openings: Keanu and a ouija board

Note: This post has been amended to include the film "St. Vincent" at AMC River Park Square.

One of the mysteries of Hollywood is … how has Keanu Reeves managed to have a career? Yeah, he was decent in "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" and "The Matrix" trilogy. Overall, though, not a thespian. Yet he endures.

Which you will see on Friday when Reeves's latest movie, "John Wick," opens. The whole of the weekend's mainstream movie offerings, as of Tuesday afternoon at least,  is as follows:

"John Wick": Reeves plays a former hitman gradually pulled out of retirement. Does he down the blue or the red pill?

"Ouija": Some teens play the creepy board game and get threatened by an evil force. I wonder: Does it want them to do their homework?

"St. Vincent": Bill Murray stars as what IMDB describes as a "misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic war veteran who lives next door" to a young boy whose parents have recently divorced. Can you say role model?

And at the Magic Lantern (besides picking up "My Old Lady" second run):

"Listen Up Philip": A self-absorbed writer awaits publication of his novel. Jason Schwartzman, typecast again.

"The Return to Homs": A documentary about young men living in the embattled Syrian city of Homs. Forget the jokes; nothing about the Syrian situation is funny.

And make sure to enjoy.