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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Enter Dan Berk and Robert Olsen’s new film Novocaine, the anti-action action movie featuring an awkwardly charming Jack Quaid and confidently cool Amber Midthunder. With a unique central premise ...

Novocaine seems especially crafted with Quaid’s ongoing screen presence in mind. It is nothing if not a continuation of a theme, both for Quaid and for the John Wick-ification of action films.

You wouldn’t necessarily think it from the damage he sustains over the course of “Novocaine,” but Nathan Caine ranks among the most risk-averse action heroes the genre has ever seen.

What results is a gory story that sees Nathan facing deadly forces. In CinemaBlend’s Novocaine review, Eric Eisenberg shared mostly positive thoughts, though he wished the central concept was ...

LOS ANGELES, March 8 (UPI) --Novocaine, in theaters Friday, has an inventive action-comedy premise. It lags a bit between the set pieces but never long enough to ruin the fun. Jack Quaid stars as ...

That’s certainly the case with the central character of Novocaine, Dan Berk and Robert Olsen’s action-comedy about a man genetically incapable of feeling pain. As played winningly by Jack ...

With Dan Berk and Robert Olsen’s Novocaine, my anticipation was satiated in the sense that Jack Quaid delivers another amusing performance full of quirk, humor, and affability – but it also ...