'Novocaine' review: Jack Quaid crushes as an unlikely action hero who can't feel pain
Quaid's leading role in Novocaine feels like a natural continuation of these genre-bent everymen. He plays Nathan Caine, a mild-mannered assistant bank manager who has congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis (CIPA), a genetic disorder that impacts his nervous system to the point that he can't feel pain or temperature.
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You wouldn't necessarily think it from the damage he sustains over the course of "Novocaine," but Nathan Caine ranks among ...
It is nothing if not a continuation of a theme, both for Quaid and for the John Wick-ification of action films. Like Wick, Nathan Caine (Quaid) is an unassuming, socially awkward shut-in who possesses ...
Quaid plays a timid introvert who dates a colleague, sees her abducted by a brutal gang and takes matters into his own hands to get her back.
Filled with blood, laughs, and a stellar cast, Dan Berk and Robert Olsen's 'Novocaine' is the best action film of 2025.
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 ...
"Novocaine," in theaters Friday, has fun with an action hero who does not feel pain, though slows down whenever he's not on ...
The busy actor appeared in two movies this past weekend, including A24’s ‘Opus,’ whose casting director happens to be her ...
Paramount’s action comedy Novocaine saw the brilliant Jack Quaid continue his strong 2025 run, following the late-January ...
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