Bobby Sands: 66 Days
| Release Date: November 30, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
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10
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4
Negative:
0
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The PlaylistOktay Ege Kozak Nov 30, 2016
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. Read full review
83
The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayNov 29, 2016
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. Read full review
80
VarietyDennis HarveyNov 27, 2016
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. Read full review
80
EmpireAndrew LowryAug 15, 2016
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. Read full review
80
The TelegraphRobbie CollinAug 15, 2016
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. Read full review
80
Time Out LondonTom HuddlestonAug 15, 2016
It’s in contextualising Sands’s struggle that ‘66 Days’ is most effective. Read full review
80
Total FilmJamie GrahamAug 15, 2016
Informed, balanced and deeply humane. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineKenji FujishimaNov 27, 2016
Brendan J. Byrne's documentary about Bobby Sands colors its familiar formal lines with welcome intelligence. Read full review
70
The New York TimesStephen HoldenNov 29, 2016
Mr. Byrne’s film is a sober, evenhanded recapitulation of Sands’s imprisonment and death that places him in a historical context. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comMark DujsikDec 1, 2016
For its own part, Bobby Sands: 66 Days doesn't reclaim its subject's humanity. Read full review
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The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeDec 2, 2016
While the doc uses reenactment and plentiful period news footage to chart how Sands withered away, and to capture the mixture of respect and grief his determination to die produced in supporters, the film is always about more than Sands. Read full review
60
Village VoiceSam WeisbergDec 1, 2016
This gripping movie is essential viewing for any Irish history buffs who found In the Name of the Father a tad corny. Read full review
60
CineVueBen NicholsonAug 15, 2016
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. Read full review
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The GuardianPeter BradshawAug 15, 2016
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. Read full review
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