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He Named Me Malala spotlights a worthy subject, but without the focus her story deserves.
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It's a shame that Guggenheim's slickly produced documentary examines such an important and fascinating story with such underwhelming results. Dec 30, 2015 | Rating: C- | Full Review…
It's a shame that Guggenheim's slickly produced documentary examines such an important and fascinating story with such underwhelming results.
Gary M. Kramer
The easy intimacy of the family dynamic is the film's big revelation. Nov 11, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The easy intimacy of the family dynamic is the film's big revelation.
Sandra Hall
This cagey documentary portrait fails to do justice to its inspiring subject, Malala Yousafzai. Nov 9, 2015 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
This cagey documentary portrait fails to do justice to its inspiring subject, Malala Yousafzai.
Sophie Monks Kaufman
Guggenheim's film is inspiring. Nov 5, 2015 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Guggenheim's film is inspiring.
Peter Bradshaw
The result is a film more educational than engrossing; high schoolers should see it - the rest of us, maybe not. Oct 9, 2015 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
The result is a film more educational than engrossing; high schoolers should see it - the rest of us, maybe not.
Brad Wheeler
While Malala's saintly status is front and center, there are lingering, disquieting and incomplete issues all over the place. Oct 9, 2015 | Rating: B | Full Review…
While Malala's saintly status is front and center, there are lingering, disquieting and incomplete issues all over the place.
Tom Long
Stirring, respectful and eulogising rather than polemical. Apr 8, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Stirring, respectful and eulogising rather than polemical.
Matthew Anderson
What shines through is her calmness and optimism as she continues along the long, slow path back to full recovery. Aug 23, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
What shines through is her calmness and optimism as she continues along the long, slow path back to full recovery.
Alison Rowat
... the title and narrative makes it inadvertently about the man behind Malala, her father Ziauddin Yousafzai, that by the end of 87 minutes will leave you questioning just what is the real story behind the this almost mythical Malala. Aug 21, 2018 | Full Review…
... the title and narrative makes it inadvertently about the man behind Malala, her father Ziauddin Yousafzai, that by the end of 87 minutes will leave you questioning just what is the real story behind the this almost mythical Malala.
Rosalynn Try-Hane
He Named Me Malala is well-made, inspiring, and full of moments that will touch your heart in ways many documentaries of this nature won't. Aug 14, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
He Named Me Malala is well-made, inspiring, and full of moments that will touch your heart in ways many documentaries of this nature won't.
Mae Abdulbaki
The wonderful thing about He Named Me Malala, a documentary made by the American Davis Guggenheim, is how much it tells us that we didn't know. Oct 25, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The wonderful thing about He Named Me Malala, a documentary made by the American Davis Guggenheim, is how much it tells us that we didn't know.
Matthew Bond
What's in a name? As He Named Me Malala posits, maybe nothing, until the rose chooses to embody what it means to be a rose. Sep 21, 2017 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
What's in a name? As He Named Me Malala posits, maybe nothing, until the rose chooses to embody what it means to be a rose.
tt stern-enzi
With such an interesting story and topic, a real life heroine, this documentary falls a little flat. It fails to tackle the real questions about what happened and focuses on the same information we already know. It is still thought provokimg and Malala is very brave and an inspiration but it could have been better.
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