Most action-comedies pick a lane, they’re either big and over-the-top action or full of laugh-out-loud absurdity. However, Midnight Runners doesn’t choose. Instead, it combines both, ...

The brutal action-comedy puts that condition – and the audience’s stomach – to the test with grisly bone fractures, self-administered surgeries and a torture scene where a pair of pliers ...

Nathan Caine may not be able to feel pain, as the tagline for the new action-comedy “Novocaine” reads, but the same does not apply to audiences. Although he doesn’t scream when his leg is ...

BOTTOM LINE Quaid makes for a lovable numskull — literally — in this spiffy, splattery action-comedy. Before you ask: Yes, congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis or CIPA, is real.

What the action scenes really have going for them is what the rest of the movie has going for it: Jack Quaid and the comedy. It’s a good thing his character in this can’t feel any pain because ...

The unwieldy action rom-com “Novocaine” makes a convincing ... Don’t put Quaid in a romantic comedy — please, not a proper romantic comedy.

The hero at the heart of “Novocaine” can't feel pain Nathan Caine may not be able to feel pain, as the tagline for the new action-comedy “Novocaine” reads, but the same does not apply to ...

Nathan Caine may not be able to feel pain, as the tagline for the new action-comedy “Novocaine” reads, but the same does not apply to audiences. Although he doesn’t scream when his leg is ...