Malala Yousafzai is named after Malalai of Maiwand, a heroic late 19th-century Afghani poetess and warrior, whose values of courage and determination are the young girl's inheritance. The image of the 18-year-old Ms Yousafzai has been beamed across global television sets and plastered onto prestigious magazine covers. After campaigning for the education rights of girls in her native Pakistan, she has become the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, even surviving an assassination attempt by the Taliban in 2012.Malala is a glowing paragon of virtue, making her the perfect subject for a feel-good, optimistic documentary, but while her story is fascinating and complex, the treatment in David Guggenheim's work may leave some feeling as though they've sat through a PR video, with all the most compelling mysteries left at the edge of their vision.He Named me Malala is a slick documentary following the adventures of Malala as she travels to Nigerian villages or American public-speaking seminars, delivering the gambit of her noble proposals in a rousing, Eastern-accented English, followed by the audience bursting into roaring applause, or gently weeping - this is, after all, a "tearjerker" which advertises itself as an antidote to cynicism and loss of faith in humanity, but also is not shy of sentimentality and emotionally heavy passages. Some of the most touching moments are, strangely enough, those glimpses of reality in between the saintly portrayal of Malala, like when we see her playfully arm wrestling with her brother or Googling images of tennis players she adores. Looming in the details is Malala's father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, an educator who had long campaigned against the Taliban, and a certain enigma prevails with regard to how much his activist influence was transmitted to his daughter. The documentary asks the questions, but these are brushed aside and things are so polished and rehearsed that a glimmer of suspicion remains as to the truth behind the curtain.In its rush, the film also leaves aside some the psychological and social questions about the young woman's catapulting into activist superstardom. For example, the effects on her of worldwide recognition and her grooming and transformation into a social justice mascot for the Western media. But aside from these inconsistencies, the film will provide a nice background and intimate access to Malala's world, and the story is certainly a captivating one.Rating: 3/5..