This film perfectly covers the editor's personal life, public life and iconic status as the most admired journalist of his day.

...fascinating but zero warts homage to Bradlee...would have been more admirable had it dealt in detail with the moral chiaroscuros that were apparent in the man instead of basically ignoring them to produce a simplistic paean to a complex man.

The trouble with figures like Bradlee, though, is that they loom so large, their actions so monumental, that it feels impossible to merely define them by their achievements, which is more or less what Maggio's movie does.