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Novocaine
Directed by
Dan Berk
,
Robert Olsen
R
2025
1h 50m
Action
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Comedy
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6.5
81%
84%
6.8
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When the girl of his dreams is kidnapped, a man incapable of feeling physical pain turns his rare condition into an unexpected advantage in the fight to rescue her.
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Cast of Novocaine
Jack Quaid
Nate
Amber Midthunder
Sherry
Ray Nicholson
Simon
Jacob Batalon
Roscoe
Betty Gabriel
Mincy
Matt Walsh
Coltraine
Conrad Kemp
Andre
Evan Hengst
Ben
Craig Jackson
Nigel
Lou Beatty Jr.
Earl
Garth Collins
Zeno
Tristan de Beer
Asshole
Jessica Stanley
Waitress
Chioma Antoinette Umeala
Bartender
Margot Wood
Elderly Woman
Dylan Skews
Officer 1
Keeno Lee Hector
Downed Officer
Maria Vos
Call Trace Officer
Dominique Maher
News Reporter
DeVille Vannik
EMT #1
Novocaine Ratings & Reviews
FilmWeek (LAist)
Peter Rainer
It's very inventive for what it is.
Kermode and Mayo's Take (YouTube)
Mark Kermode
It's not as fun as it should be...
New York Magazine/Vulture
Bilge Ebiri
Directors Dan Berk and Robert Olsen take this dumb-clever, fake-movie-science idea and run with it as hard and as fast as they can in one straight direction, using Nate's condition as an excuse for pure, unchecked mayhem.
Chicago Reader
Maxwell Rabb
It's a repetitive bloodbath without the adrenaline of some action marathons like John Wick. Instead of wondering how much more Nathan Caine can endure, I'm left wondering how much more Novocaine I can stomach.
RogerEbert.com
Peyton Robinson
Berk and Olsen accomplish a formidable action-comedy, one that puts their horror roots in neon lights and sense of humor on equal display.
Los Angeles Times
Amy Nicholson
"Novocaine" makes a convincing argument that its lead, Jack Quaid, can do it all: woo the girl, shoot the goon and tickle the audience. The movie itself has a harder time, screwing its three genres together so awkwardly that it tends to limp.
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
None of it makes sense, even if he does stop for an adrenaline injection, but if we wanted to see something make sense we'd be at a different movie.
New York Times
Brandon Yu
What keeps it from deflating into tiresome shtick (which it very nearly does) is Quaid with his gawky, boyish charisma, an actual tough guy who just doesn't know how to act it.
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
Despite the stylish direction from the duo of Dan Berk and Robert Olsen and winning performances by Jack Quaid and Amber Midthunder, "Novocaine" sputters to the finish line.
Wall Street Journal
Kyle Smith
The almost nonstop fighting and Mr. Quaid's low-key charm are enough to make the movie a serviceable action offering. Moreover, the script, though focused on wacky spasms of violence, has a strong human element at its core.
Boston Globe
Odie Henderson
It's like watching the Black Knight get dismembered in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," except that was funny and the gag didn't run nearly two hours. To my surprise, I was bored by the gruesome and repetitive carnage.
The Daily Beast
Nick Schager
In trying to have it both ways, it succeeds in neither, in the process stranding its charming leading man in a saga that needed to be either goofier or more gruesome.
Associated Press
Lindsey Bahr
On the heels of some bad action comedies... "Novocaine" is pretty enjoyable
Newsday
Rafer Guzman
Quaid makes for a lovable numskull - literally - in this spiffy, splattery action-comedy.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
By the end of "Novocaine," it's as if the filmmakers forgot how their movie started.
Washington Post
Jen Yamato
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.
Bloody Disgusting
Meagan Navarro
Berk and Olsen elevate a simple setup with their genre sensibilities, resulting in an action-splatstick hybrid that brings the pain to absurdly violent, entertaining highs.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
Half of what the characters do doesn't make sense, the other half is implausible or downright impossible. But it is fun. A lot of fun. (And funny, thanks to Jack Quaid's go-for-broke performance.)
AV Club
Matt Schimkowitz
Quaid, whose dopey face makes for a solid stress ball, keeps things moving even as he's deprived of reactions to the heightened scenario around him.
ScreenCrush
Matt Singer
Belongs to the tradition of movies like Evil Dead II and Crank, where the audience is invited to derive twisted pleasure from watching a heroic leading man get the crap beaten out of him in inventive ways.
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