The film's insistence in combining all these issues leads to an overstuffed product that bombards the audience with facts that fail to register.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 28, 2020

Brendan J. Byrne's 66 Days is a well presented look at the ten IRA prisoners who went on hunger strike in 1981.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 2, 2018

I'm not sure Bobby Sands: 66 Days really does enough to justify a theatrical release.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 19, 2017

A more embracing context of the politics of all sides around it, the bloodshed that took place around it, and what it really engendered afterwards, would make 66 Days feel less like a full-hearted tribute.

| Sep 20, 2017

It's a testament to the quality of filmmaking that Bobby Sands: 66 Days comes across neither as a piece of propaganda, a screed, or a dry piece of journalism.

| Aug 15, 2017

The doc - made by Brendan J. Byrne and in part by public broadcasters in several countries - is shocking, meaningful and illustrative about terrorism, politics, hate and hope.

| Feb 28, 2017

Anyone should seek out Bobby Sands: 66 Days if interested in a significant turning point in Irish history.

| Jan 3, 2017

Informed, balanced and deeply humane.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2017

Although the gut-level sympathies of Brendan J Byrne's film are clear, we hear unsentimental thoughts from all sides.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 17, 2016

A searing documentary about the life and death of an Irish hero.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 1, 2016

Bobby Sands: 66 Days offers something both for those who've never heard of Sands and those who have his youthful smile etched forever in memory.

| Dec 1, 2016

Byrne never resorts to such cheap tricks as matching the imagery to what the interviewees are saying, and the film is no hagiography.

| Nov 30, 2016

What can be learned from Bobby Sands's tactics and the British response in dealing with today's ideological, political, and religious extremists elsewhere in the world.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 30, 2016

The impact of the movie comes in spurts, connected to a few keen insights from this historian or that expert.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 30, 2016

Byrne does a fine job of juggling a lot of information, which he does by starting with the immediately arresting story of Sands and then jumping back in time.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 30, 2016

Mr. Byrne's film is a sober, evenhanded recapitulation of Sands's imprisonment and death that places him in a historical context.

| Nov 29, 2016

This documentary about IRA martyr Bobby Sands' 1981 hunger strike is both tragic aria and political-history essay.

| Nov 29, 2016

Brendan J. Byrne's documentary about Bobby Sands colors its familiar formal lines with welcome intelligence.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 27, 2016

While hardly the first and unlikely to be the last cinematic word on its subject, this finely crafted docu may well long stand as the most balanced among such treatments.

| Nov 7, 2016

[An] insightful documentary.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 11, 2016