He Named Me Malala

"Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by the Taliban for refusing to stay home from school. She’s now an international folk hero, education crusader and Nobel laureate. In this vivacious documentary, director Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth) explains her fortitude as mostly nurture, via her teacher father who named her after the girl warrior who lead the Pashtun to victory over the British in 1880."

"Where the film falters is in its willingness to settle for canned uplift, reducing the substance of Malala’s global activism to multicultural montages, goosed by Thomas Newman’s emotional cattle prod of a score."

"Frustratingly artless..."

"So much in this movie sounds as if it's well rehearsed that you're not really sure what to take at face value."

"Guggenheim's film is inspiring."

"Davis Guggenheim does some of his most heartfelt work in this tribute to Malala and her entire family."

"A forceful and exquisitely made piece of advocacy journalism."

"A fittingly poignant treatment of an inspiring subject."