Quaid's leading role in Novocaine feels like a natural continuation of these genre-bent everymen. He plays Nathan Caine, a ...

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 ...

Quaid’s performance, and the movie’s insistence on his character’s unlikely heroism, goes a long way towards compensating for “Novocaine’s” at least questionable depiction of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...