2025 · action · comedy · thriller
Novocaine
Directed by Dan Berk, Robert Olsen1h 50m2025
When the girl of his dreams is kidnapped, everyman Nate turns his inability to feel pain into an unexpected strength in his fight to get her back.
Our read: Novocaine (2025) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive action · comedy · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme action / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- kinetic
- intense
- inventive
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