I am certain I have never made as many noises watching a movie as I did while watching “Novocaine.” Groans, sighs, ughs, moans, shrieks and about 27 variations on “ARGGHHH!” This is a good ...

Novocaine is a totally confounding movie that is surprisingly easy to describe. It’s an entertaining yet bad film. Not bad in the “intentional B-schlock fun” way either. Bad as in, “This ...

I don’t know, I’m not his biographer. I am, however, a film critic, and “Novocaine” is a film so let’s go: Jack Quaid stars as Nathan Caine, a young San Diego bank executive with two ...

Jack Quaid stars as a bank manager who’s impervious to pain. After watching his reluctant action hero get brutalized for two hours, you’ll wish you were, too. “Novocaine” begins with a ...

Novocaine has a run time of 110 minutes, and had it been capped under 90 minutes, it would be all killer and no filler. There’s also plenty of leaps in logic in the overall pursuit of the bank ...

Well, essentially, he’d be Jack Quaid’s Nathan Caine, the appealing protagonist of “Novocaine,” an action-comedy romp that has quite a bit of heart and punches a bit above its weight as it ...

"Novocaine," in theaters Friday, has fun with an action hero who does not feel pain, though slows down whenever he's not on ...

Novocaine is in theaters on March 14, 2025. Edgar Wright made a name for himself with action comedies like Shaun of the Dead and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World – movies where normal, flawed dudes ...

Over the last few years, Novocaine star Jack Quaid has carved himself a niche by playing the everyman archetype with a genre twist. Quaid's leading role in Novocaine feels like a natural ...

The trailer for Novocaine indicates it’s an action-comedy, and there are definitely times when that’s exactly what it is. But the film’s first 15 minutes present a very serious, interesting ...