Novocaine

Name: Novocaine
Genre: Action, Thriller, Comedy
Released: March 14, 2025
Rating: 58

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Paramount Pictures | Release Date: March 14, 2025

Summary: When the girl of his dreams (Amber Midthunder) is kidnapped, everyman Nate (Jack Quaid) turns his inability to feel pain into an unexpected strength in his fight to get her back.

Genre(s): Action, Thriller, Comedy

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Thom Ernst

Mar 11, 2025

A raucous, non-stop, full-throttle slapstick comedy that makes an episode of The Three Stooges seem like a production of Swan Lake. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Mar 8, 2025

The numerous fight scenes, which often lapse into extreme gore, are as amusing as they are exciting. Read full review

Lena Wilson

Mar 8, 2025

Novocaine offers more depth than its gimmicky “man who feels no pain” premise may lead you to believe. This movie breathes new life into old ideas, with an original hero buoyed by the charm of Jack Quaid and a heroine who ably beats the damsel-in-distress allegations. Novocaine is smart, but not so self-aware that it’s likely to alienate anybody; sharp, but not without feeling. Read full review

Peter Debruge

Mar 9, 2025

In Novocaine, it’s the romance that keeps us going, more than whatever sadistic delight the co-directors take in poking Nathan full of holes, treating him like some kind of Looney Tunes character. Read full review

Radheyan Simonpillai

May 9, 2025

It helps that Quaid is so good at landing every punchline, if not punch. His Nathan may not have any sense of pain, but Quaid gives him a great sense of humour. Read full review

Jesse Hassenger

Mar 12, 2025

Novocaine starts with a premise that is Crank-like in its absurdity, deepens it with feeling, and then rams full speed ahead through a litany of stupidities. Read full review

Jen Yamato

Mar 12, 2025

Even with a gimmick engineered to orchestrate endless bursts of Looney Tunes-style hyperviolence, “Novocaine” lives up to its name, all right — a tedious action-comedy so numbingly bland, you feel the pain of its 110-minute run time even as its protagonist can’t feel a thing. Read full review

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