MixedThe Washington Independent Review of BooksWhat new material Edwards gleans from his communications with lesser-known people essentially reiterates what the more famous ones already have said about the beloved leading man ... Edwards ... isn’t a great writer, but he is thorough ... Edwards would have done well to limit his narrative to films of significance. Nobody is going to learn much about Hanks from Toy Story 2, let alone Toy Story 3 ... Whether he is writing about Hanks’ life or his movies, Edwards finds it hard to be selective. He’s rather like a fanboy, too carried away by the object of his adoration to focus on what’s most relevant ... In the end, maybe all Edwards wanted to do is redefine \'nice,\' as he writes in his preface, \'The Nice Manifesto.\'
