Novocaine features a great leading performance by Jack Quaid, but it cannot fix the mind-numbing mishmash of genres in this incoherent movie.

"Novocaine" doesn't need to make anyone this numb, not after start with a real (sorry) shot to the arm. Grade: C+ "Novocaine" premiered at the 2025 SXSW Film Festival.

Think of every painful thing you can do to your body. Now, string them together and put a group of robbers on your tail. That ...

MOVIE REVIEW | ★★ ‘Novocaine’ is a numbing experience Jack Quaid stars as a bank manager who’s impervious to pain. After watching his reluctant action hero get brutalized for two hours ...

’Novocaine’ Review: This Jack Quaid-Starring Actioner Starts Like a Shot Before Numbing Effects Take Hold. SXSW: His Nathan Caine might not be able to feel pain, but oh, ...

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 ...

The number one movie in America this weekend was 'Novocaine,' which reached it with just $8.7 million, but other films have hit No. 1 with less.

Amber Midthunder and Jack Quaid in “Novocaine” (Paramount Pictures) And it was so, again, something I’ve never done, and it was so wonderful. But we did so much of that so early.

Everybody hurts — except for Nathan Caine. And yes, the soundtrack for “Novocaine” has a lot of fun with that fact. Now in theaters, “Novocaine” follows Nathan (Jack Quaid), an assistant ...

Novocaine is a mishmash of multiple genres that don’t work together. The result is a movie that has no idea what it is, what it wants to do, or why it’s doing anything.

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.

Novocaine features a great leading performance by Jack Quaid, ... NOVOCAINE Is a Mind-Numbing Mishmash of Genres Mixed with Jack Quaid’s Charm. by Michael Walsh. Mar 11 2025 • 8:19 AM.