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Novocaine
2025
· Movie
· 110 min
C
MEANRANK
66/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3021
- IMDb #3431
- Google retired #2337
- Rotten Tomatoes #1399
- Metacritic #3125
- Letterboxd #3667
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1930
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1286
- Metacritic Critics #2620
- Metacritic Audience #3796
- Criticker #2653
- Douban #2392
- Kinopoisk #4074
- AlloCiné #2650
- Trakt #2872
Every rating
39–84
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 39, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 84.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A brilliant but troubled surgeon becomes addicted to a powerful experimental anesthetic that heightens his senses and surgical skills to superhuman levels. However, the drug's side effects include violent hallucinations and paranoia, pulling him into a deadly conspiracy and making him a suspect in a series of crimes.
Details
- Directors
- Dan Berk, Robert Olsen
- Writer
- Lars Jacobson
- Released
- 3 March 2025
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $18.0M
- Box office
- $34.5M
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Awards
3 nominations total
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