‘She Rides Shotgun’ Review: A Young Girl Learns To Grow Up Fast In A Violent But Slyly Subversive New Mexico Neo-Noir
JUL 31 – Taron Egerton plays Nate, an ex-con fighting to protect his estranged daughter from a drug kingpin in a gritty crime thriller adapted from Jordan Harper's novel.
- On August 1, 2025, She Rides Shotgun opens with Taron Egerton starring as ex-con Nate McClusky, determined to protect his daughter Polly.
- Based on Jordan Harper’s novel and directed by Nick Rowland, Nate McClusky, recently released after five years, is hunted by Aryan Steel, a white supremacist gang.
- Production wrapped in 25 days, with the screenplay by Jordan Harper, Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski maintaining the novel’s raw emotional core, and Egerton and Ana Sophia Heger built authenticity during their chemistry read.
- Delivering a moving emotional payoff, She Rides Shotgun’s grounded, morally complex resolution highlights the bond between Nate and Polly.
- Despite doubts, Egerton hopes to work again with Collet-Serra, who signed a new Netflix deal, but questions a sequel's believability.
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‘She Rides Shotgun’ Review: A Young Girl Learns To Grow Up Fast In A Violent But Slyly Subversive New Mexico Neo-Noir
She Rides Shotgun begins with one uneasy situation and ends on quite another, and the two hours in between are anything but comfortable. Somehow, though, director Nick Rowland finds the lodestone of emotion that allows us to follow its young heroine on a very dark, adult journey without too much recourse to sentimentality. The running […]
‘She Rides Shotgun’ Review: Taron Egerton Is an Ex-Con Trying to Save His Daughter from Skinheads in a Tough but Movingly Tender Crime Thriller
The tense but tender story of a criminal dad who reunites and/or runs off with his child at a crucial point in both of their lives, Nick Rowland’s “She Rides Shotgun” is the kind of movie you’ve seen so many times before in one form (“Paper Moon”) or another (“Leave No Trace”) that it really just lives or dies on whether it gets the characters right. In this case, the well-trafficked road to perdition can be rather bumpy at times, and it’s prone…
Five Cent Cine: She Rides Shotgun - Buffalo Rising
She Rides Shotgun ★★ (out of four stars) Kidsploitation Just released from prison, Nate McCluskey is a marked man, slated for “greenlighting”—that is, assassination by the Aryan Brotherhood, which he has double-crossed to get out of jail. He picks up from school his 11-year-old daughter Polly, knowing she too has been greenlighted because of his actions. What follows is a version of a father-daughter road trip, one in which Polly is educated in …
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