The Playlist by Oktay Ege Kozak

Not only is Bobby Sands: 66 Days allows us to put together a great double feature with “Hunger,” it’s also an incredibly important and profoundly inspiring historical documentary that will become more and more relevant as we prepare to once again face the kinds of oppression that Sands fought against.

The A.V. Club by Noel Murray

The emotional reserve of 66 Days can make the film feel a little dry at times, given that it’s about something as visceral as a man starving himself to death. But Byrne does a fine job of juggling a lot of information.

Variety by Dennis Harvey

This finely crafted docu may well long stand as the most balanced among such treatments, as it respectfully examines Sands’ folk-heroic legacy rather than simply amplifying it.

Total Film by Jamie Graham

Informed, balanced and deeply humane.

Time Out London by Tom Huddleston

It’s in contextualising Sands’s struggle that ‘66 Days’ is most effective.

The Telegraph by Robbie Collin

Byrne’s film is concerned with the process and practice of myth-making: the way the right person, or action, or face, can capture a moment, or galvanise a movement – and, for both good and ill, transform politics into something like art.

Empire

Narratives of the Northern Irish Troubles are a nightmare of bias and bullshit – this superior doc does better than most in cutting through both, and offers a lot to experts and noobs alike.

Empire by Andrew Lowry

Narratives of the Northern Irish Troubles are a nightmare of bias and bullshit – this superior doc does better than most in cutting through both, and offers a lot to experts and noobs alike.

Slant Magazine by Kenji Fujishima

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

The New York Times by Stephen Holden

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

RogerEbert.com by Mark Dujsik

For its own part, Bobby Sands: 66 Days doesn't reclaim its subject's humanity.

The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

Sands is still an opaque figure by the end of this film. We have his sombre writings and journals but, interestingly, there are hardly any clear photographs, and we learn little about him as a human being.

CineVue by Ben Nicholson

Though it is clearly a work of great empathy and respect, Bobby Sands: 66 Days takes pains to offer alternative perspectives and as such makes for a richly textured and complex portrait of man, myth and movement.