Best of 2016: Samar Khan’s Top 10 Films

By: Samar Khan

Crazy to believe but Muneeb Arshid and I have been cranking out reviews for The Film Lawyers for over a year now.

Raees is Shah Rukh Khan’s Scarface, “masala” style

By: Samar Khan

Shah Rukh Khan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui in a gangster thriller is what Bollywood dreams are made of.

Ben Affleck’s “Live By Night” is a waste of a gangster epic

By: Samar Khan

I have made a new promise to myself: do not buy into the hype that accompanies a director’s perfect track record. 

“Silence” is Martin Scorsese’s haunting epic on Christianity

By: Samar Khan

Nearly 3 decades after his successful The Last Temptation of Christ, Martin Scorsese delivers to us a powerful film about the struggle of one’s belief in their religion with the overarching theme being one that questions the silence of God. 

DANGAL gives us a beautiful medley of wrestling, female empowerment and Aamir Khan

By: Samar Khan

I’m sorry, Salman Khan, but Aamir Khan‘s wrestling-based film is clearly the best of the year. In fact, it seems Salman Khan agrees with me, as his Facebook page illustrates:

Rogue One is a great war film, but lacks some of the charm of a Star Wars film

By: Muneeb Arshid

So then, shall we go back to that galaxy far, far away? To a time when Darth Vader was still alive and the Death star was in its infant years.

Allied: A modern-day version of Casablanca that just doesn’t measure up

By: Samar Khan

Allied is a good movie but it ain’t no Casablanca.

“Dear Zindagi:” Please give us more of this Shah Rukh Khan

By: Samar Khan

Dear Zindagi is not your typical Shah Rukh Khan film and that’s a good thing.

Who knew that Linguistics + Sci-Fi = An instant classic in “Arrival”

By: Samar Khan

Yes, Arrival is that darn good.