The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan are forced to become warriors or victims after rewatching the 2017 crime thriller ‘Shot Caller,’ starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lake Bell, and Jon Bernthal.

Intense is a word that, like awesome, has become borderline meaningless over the past three or so decades, but “visceral,” now that still packs a wallop. Shot Caller, the new real life-meets-prison, ...