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Dave Bautista gives a quietly mesmerizing performance as Leonard—a hulking figure whose soft-spoken gentleness only heightens the unease—joined by a scruffily unnerving Rupert Grint and wrenching turns from Ben Aldridge and Jonathan Groff as the parents.
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Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 29 July 2025
Wimpy was a mild-mannered, soft-spoken, lazy, parsimonious, and utterly gluttonous hamburger-wolfing straight man to Popeye.
—Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2025
To overstate Mandapa’s Eden-esque majesty–closely overseen by general manager and nearly 20-year Ritz-Carlton veteran, Masanori Hosoya, whose affable, soft-spoken charm belies a venerable green thumb and an exacting attention to detail–is impossible.
—Alexandra Kirkman, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
Among its more exciting recent releases is this novel, about a Cambridge University academic who is haunted by the story of his soft-spoken grandfather, who for 10 years was a prisoner of conscience in Vietnam.
—Michael Schaub, Oc Register, 25 June 2025
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Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 29 July 2025
Wimpy was a mild-mannered, soft-spoken, lazy, parsimonious, and utterly gluttonous hamburger-wolfing straight man to Popeye.
—Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2025
To overstate Mandapa’s Eden-esque majesty–closely overseen by general manager and nearly 20-year Ritz-Carlton veteran, Masanori Hosoya, whose affable, soft-spoken charm belies a venerable green thumb and an exacting attention to detail–is impossible.
—Alexandra Kirkman, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
Among its more exciting recent releases is this novel, about a Cambridge University academic who is haunted by the story of his soft-spoken grandfather, who for 10 years was a prisoner of conscience in Vietnam.
—Michael Schaub, Oc Register, 25 June 2025
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“Soft-spoken.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/soft-spoken. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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