Novocaine is a beautifully bonkers action-rom-com that leans into body horror territory for laughs, finding love.

Co-directors Dan Berk and Robert Olsen’s action comedy movie Novocaine debuts in U.S. theaters this Friday, March 14, 2025. Initial reviews from professional critics are coming in, and they are mostly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Over the last few years, Novocaine star Jack Quaid has carved himself a niche by playing the everyman archetype with a genre twist ...

The past decade has taken action movies to new places as high-end choreography in films like John Wick shines a light on stunt crews while superhero films deliver on fantasy action that gives ...

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 ends up ...

The template for a Jack Quaid character is clear: balance him on the precipice between aggressiveness and passivity before splattering him with blood. Between Scream, Companion, The Boys and even his ...

Nathan Caine may not be able to feel pain, as the tagline for the new action-comedy “Novocaine” reads, but the same does not apply to audiences. Although he doesn’t scream when his leg is impaled with ...

“Novocaine” is an action comedy about a white-collar nebbish whose congenital inability to feel pain becomes an advantage once armed thugs kidnap his girlfriend and he becomes hell-bent on rescuing ...

Action films follow a rather predictable formula where an extraordinary person (usually a man) goes on a journey fueled by some sort of revenge and will do whatever it takes to get their vengeance, ...

Novocaine is a film that's honest about what it is. It's a "cringe comedy" where you wince every time another Wile E. Coyote-style violent act happens. It doesn't quite run out of steam but is a film ...

“Novocaine” arrives with one bag of good news, and one bag that should’ve packed a little lighter on the ultraviolence. I write this with a full understanding that other people may not agree. They’ll ...

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