Jordan Harper’s acclaimed novel “She Rides Shotgun” has been adapted for the big screen, and we have thoughts. Meanwhile, “Code of Silence” speaks volumes as to why Britbox deserves your attention.

Both arrive in a week when you can also catch Palo Alto native Dave Franco and Alison Brie in the compelling new horror film “Together.”

Here is our roundup.

“She Rides Shotgun”: Bibliophiles who devoured novelist Jordan Harper’s 2017 thriller in a single gulp know well what a pulse-pounding read it was. The question mark hovering over director Nick Rowland’s cinematic adaptation is whether that nerve-jangling tension can be replicated and sustained onscreen. The answer? Yes … mostly.

As in Jordan’s novel, the story grabs you from the start as precocious Polly (Ann Sophia Heger, whose eyes

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