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By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 08 Oct 2015

[Guggenheim] mostly seems determined to show how nice Malala is -- which feels disappointing, considering her work is all about girls refusing…

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By Chris Knight (998) for National Post (1,405) on 08 Oct 2015

Guggenheim has mostly wasted a chance to tease out its deeper threads, but then maybe, at the level of folk hero, all you ever really are is a name…

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By Jim Slotek (879) for Toronto Sun (419) on 07 Oct 2015

What we absorb from He Named Me Malala is the idea of the hero as a product of action rather than being…

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By Anders Wright (338) for San Diego Union-Tribune (1,408) on 07 Oct 2015

If this one girl, who has been through so much, can continue to raise her voice to better the world, perhaps the rest of us should, too…

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By Kate Muir (612) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 07 Oct 2015

[He Named Me Malala] provides a delightful, profound and surprisingly funny insight into her life before, and later when she became a worldwide…

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By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 07 Oct 2015

The chief draw here, of course, is Malala herself: an irrepressible, earnest voice for the oppressed…

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By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 07 Oct 2015

We get a few glimpses of Malala the hormonal teenager behind Malala the Nobel Peace Prize winner, but this rarely feels like anything more…

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By Leonard Maltin (609) for leonardmaltin.com (584) on 07 Oct 2015

A closer look at the incredible journey-thus far--of Malala Yousafzai...a young girl, far wiser than her 18 years…

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By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 07 Oct 2015

A little suspense might have helped this well-meaning but toothless effort…

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By Michael Smith (475) for Tulsa World (603) on 07 Oct 2015

He Named Me Malala works best when told simply in the words of Malala herself, both in private and in public…

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By Linda Barnard (586) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 07 Oct 2015

It's impossible not to feel affection for and protective of this young woman…

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By Kristian M. Lin (336) for Fort Worth Weekly (325) on 07 Oct 2015

This story doesn't need any sort of gilding, just a certain amount of humanizing detail…

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By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 07 Oct 2015

If there’s a quibble with the film, it’s that it glosses over what it’s like to grow up in the glare of worldwide celebrity…

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By Barbara Vandenburgh (315) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 07 Oct 2015

Though polished and image-conscious, offering too little insight into the physical and psychological trauma suffered in the bullet’s wake,…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 07 Oct 2015

We may someday look back on He Named Me Malala as a film that told us much about a future world leader — or one that told us surprisingly little…

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By Steven Rea (1,872) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 07 Oct 2015

A polished piece of advocacy filmmaking, He Named Me Malala begins - and is intercut with - beautiful animated sequences featuring Malala's…

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By Walter Addiego (380) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 07 Oct 2015

He Named Me Malala gets good marks as a laudatory piece about a genuinely valiant young woman, but it could use a modest dose of objectivity…

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By Mike Scott (1,178) for Times-Picayune (642) on 07 Oct 2015

Guggenheim's film makes it clear that she is funny. She is humble. And, beneath her extraordinary sense of purpose, she is an ordinary kid…

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By Elaine Teng (13) for The New Republic (897) on 06 Oct 2015

He Named Me Malala suffers from a lack of dramatic tension throughout…

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By Bob Bloom (1,124) for Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN) (1,017) on 06 Oct 2015

He Named Me Malala' would have been a much-improved film if (director Davis) Guggenheim had been more objective and given us a fuller and…

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