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Shikhar Verma

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Biography:

Co-founded the independent platform High On Films so that Independent film from across the world could get the love they deserve. Has a keen eye for everything art related and is constantly involved in spreading it around. Films are first love. A dream, a reality, and an illusion - all wrapped in one.

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Movies TV Shows
Tafiti: Across the Desert (2025) 2.5/5 EDIT “[Tafiti - Across the Desert] is a classic adventure with pint-sized life lessons that the kiddies would enjoy. However, their accompanying parents might find its lack of rhythms and surprises a tad tough to sit through. ” – High on Films Jan 27, 2026 Full Review The Bad Patriots (2024) 3/5 EDIT “[The Bad Patriots] is a documentary that is only able to reason out why a balanced world without biases is what we need right now. ” – High on Films Jan 25, 2026 Full Review Smile... The Worst Is Yet to Come (2026) 2.5/5 EDIT “ "Smile…The Worst is Yet to Come," which follows the midlife crisis of a perfectly imperfect LA-based couple, conjures up these relatable anxieties of being in your 40s and finally realizing that life is slowly slipping away from you. ” – High on Films Jan 20, 2026 Full Review The Mannequin (2025) 56% 2/5 EDIT “The rushed feeling ruins the entire enterprise and makes "The Manequin" a barely realized supernatural slasher that can only be used as a part of John Berardo’s portfolio reel to showcase his talent in scene blocking and staging. ” – High on Films Jan 19, 2026 Full Review Happy Patel: Khatarnak Jasoos (2026) 50% 2/5 EDIT “The jokes aren’t laugh-out-loud-funny because there is a constant undercurrent of self-awareness that either slices the joke in half or lets it go on for a little too long for it to land in the traditional sense.” – High on Films Jan 19, 2026 Full Review Stalkers (2025) 2.5/5 EDIT “"Stalkers" works intermittently because of how it weaves in the themes of obsession and the insecurities that people carry within them. ” – High on Films Jan 1, 2026 Full Review The American Southwest (2025) 100% 3/5 EDIT “[Ben Masters] laces the narrative with history to help us figure out that human selfishness will only render these natural resources dry, but it will be us who will suffer the consequences of our actions, while nature keeps growing back. ” – High on Films Dec 22, 2025 Full Review The Kiss of a Vampire (2025) 0.5/5 EDIT “You need to have a special kind of talent to make the so-bad-that-its-good work, and Richard Douglas Jensen’s "The Kiss of a Vampire," with its self-serious erotic tonality and zero sense of filmmaking bite, strays so far away from it.” – High on Films Dec 10, 2025 Full Review A Savage Art: The Life & Cartoons of Pat Oliphant (2025) 83% 3/5 EDIT “As a documentation of Oliphant’s life, "A Savage Art" works as it is able to convey the artist’s need to "steer up the beast." Although it fails to have a deeper, more intricate political context of its own. ” – High on Films Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Yes Repeat No (2023) 2.5/5 EDIT “"Yes, Repeat No" is definitely an experiment that is worth checking out. However, it might not serve as a clutter-breaker as it intends to be. ” – High on Films Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) 60% 1/5 EDIT “"Now You See Me: Now You Don’t" is the magic equivalent of an internet meme that has appeared on your feed for the nth time, and all you actually do is sigh and move on. ” – High on Films Nov 19, 2025 Full Review Luv Ya, Bum! (2025) 100% 3/5 EDIT “"Luv Ya, Bum!" is an inspiring look at an icon who traversed with kindness on and off the field, and changed the grammar of coaching, or, as one of the Hall of Famers in the documentary points out, the grammar of teaching itself. ” – High on Films Nov 16, 2025 Full Review Citizen Sleuth (2023) 100% 3.5/5 EDIT “"Citizen Slueth" [is] a layered, and dare I say, a wildly entertaining interrogation into the moral grey area between fact and fiction in true crime subculture. ” – High on Films Nov 14, 2025 Full Review No Pictures With My Father (2025) 2/5 EDIT “A more structured narrative, a more sincere sit-down would have made “ No Pictures With My Father” more memorable. ” – High on Films Nov 9, 2025 Full Review Pistachio Wars (2024) 3.5/5 EDIT “Within the folds of the film, you will also find a haunting, almost chilling way in which the rich delude themselves into believing everything that they are doing is for the ‘greater good.’ ” – High on Films Nov 7, 2025 Full Review Pursued (2025) 1.5/5 EDIT “Everything in “Pursued” is peppered with tonally inconsistent, implausible, and poorly staged sequences.” – High on Films Oct 30, 2025 Full Review Intruder (2025) 2/5 EDIT “You might find yourself stuck in a constant loop of a movie that is unable to really dig into its B-movie shenanigans. ” – High on Films Oct 24, 2025 Full Review This Too Shall Pass (2024) 87% 2.5/5 EDIT “"This Too Shall Pass” essentially updates John Hughes’ template for the modern era, without losing the heart of his breezy, yet somewhat existential, edge. ” – High on Films Oct 24, 2025 Full Review Unbanked (2025) 80% 2.5/5 EDIT “Unbanked, directed by David Kuhn and Lauren Sieckmann, is a somewhat detailed and easy-to-follow look at the world of cryptocurrency, but the documentary has an often-biased and diverting narrative style that leaves a lot to be desired. ” – High on Films Oct 22, 2025 Full Review Luderdale (2025) 1/5 EDIT “[Luderdale] is a bland crime thriller that messes up its own inconsistent design by never rising above its underdeveloped material. ” – High on Films Oct 19, 2025 Full Review Odd Man Rush (2020) 2.5/5 EDIT “The performances really uplift this heartfelt but instantly forgettable coming-of-age film about the weight of pursuing a singular dream” – High on Films Oct 17, 2025 Full Review Edgar Allan Poe's "The Oval Portrait" (2025) 3/5 EDIT “It’s surprising that the filmmaker, despite a low budget, manages to develop the central characters before throwing them into a mystery that they need to resolve or come out of.” – High on Films Oct 9, 2025 Full Review Fallaway (2025) 3/5 EDIT ““Fallaway” is an occasionally affecting look at a queer experience stuck between rebellion and conformity. It's a valiant effort from debutant director Kabir McNeely that promises greater things ahead for him. ” – High on Films Oct 6, 2025 Full Review The Wildman of Shaggy Creek (2025) 2/5 EDIT “Jesse Edwards’ harmless coming-of-age film employs 80s throwback tropes to present a creature feature that becomes entirely listless because it is neither able to conjure up dread nor some form of mystery that would make it memorable. ” – High on Films Oct 3, 2025 Full Review Tell Me What You Want (2024) 2/5 EDIT “From designer clothes, gorgeous shooting locations, to hot people being hot, this erotica has it all. However, it is also corny, problematic, and derivative with its themes of power tussle falling flat on its face.” – High on Films Sep 30, 2025 Full Review
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