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‘Novocaine’: A Hero Can’t Feel Pain, But the Film’蝉 Audience Will

COMEDY CARNAGE

Jack Quaid plays a man who can’t suffer or get injured, a fun action-comedy premise that should be far more Looney Tunes than what’蝉 served up.

Nick Schager
Nick Schager?

Entertainment Critic

Jack Quaid in Novocaine.
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Paramount
Nick Schager

Nick Schager

Entertainment Critic

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