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By Caroline Jowett (26) for Daily Express (UK) (2,141) on 04 Jun 2009

Sugar is a slow-burning exploration of the immigrant experience that grows more compelling as Miguel starts to realise he might not be good…

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By Wendy Ide (1,500) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 04 Jun 2009

As a sports movie the film perhaps lacks the pace and punch to capture the genre's traditional audience…

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By Xan Brooks (287) for Guardian (4,584) on 04 Jun 2009

Sugar is a revelation, not least in the way it ducks an onrush of cliche to expose the whole rags-to-riches mantra as a bright and shining lie…

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By Tim Robey (1,578) for Daily Telegraph (UK) (2,495) on 04 Jun 2009

Sugar, winningly played by the complete newcomer Soto, isn't a cut-out ingenu but a testy, competitive, driven but fallible person…

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By Jason Wood (24) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 04 Jun 2009

Poignant and beautifully written, directed and performed, Sugar confirms Boden and Fleck as eloquent chroniclers of the underbelly of the American…

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By Tim Evans (725) for Sky Cinema (1,726) on 04 Jun 2009

The final reel veers away from the sports movie formula - and the narrative loses some of its drive - yet there's a believability about the…

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By Jamie Graham (285) for Total Film (3,532) on 04 Jun 2009

Sugar is a human story told with immense skill, right down to the deft transitions and the soft fuzz of the electronic score…

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By Christopher Tookey (761) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 04 Jun 2009

Great cinema can extend our own experience by making us understand how it must feel to be somebody else - and this is, in its gentle and unpretentious…

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By David Edwards (979) for Daily Mirror (UK) (1,133) on 04 Jun 2009

A compelling and compassionate stranger-in-a-strange-land drama, it's a film brimming with insight, integrity and life…

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By Nigel Andrews (1,359) for Financial Times (1,822) on 04 Jun 2009

Sugar is dazzlingly free of message creep. We are perplexed, yet fully persuaded…

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By Anthony Quinn (478) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 04 Jun 2009

The story's slow-burn never quite flares into dramatic wildfire…

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By Larushka Ivan-Zadeh (441) for Metro (UK) (700) on 04 Jun 2009

This masterfully pitched exercise in sombre revelation may frustrate sports fans looking for an easy hit…

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By Matthew Turner (2,508) for ViewLondon (2,339) on 04 Jun 2009

Brilliantly directed, superbly written and thoroughly engaging drama that skilfully blends sports movies, immigration dramas and coming of…

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By Rich Cline (3,056) for Shadows on the Wall (2,096) on 04 Jun 2009

A powerfully engaging coming-of-age immigration sports documentary-style drama. And this unpredictable genre mash-up is pure magic…

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By David Jenkins (910) for Time Out (7,510) on 04 Jun 2009

In 'Sugar', the pair skilfully dismantle the timeworn themes, characters and story patterns of the conventional sports movie and then reassemble…

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By Kimberly Gadette (432) for Indie Movies Online (213) on 03 Jun 2009

Like a slow curve ball, its journey unexpectedly going off course, Boden and Fleck deliver their magnificent take on the American dream by…

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By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 31 May 2009

Sugar is a completely convincing character who inhabits what appears to be an utterly authentic world…

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By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Film4 (1,522) on 26 May 2009

Naturalistic performances, even-handed characterisation and the utter eschewal of genre cliches ensure that this tale of a stranger in a strange…

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By Keith Cohen (225) for Entertainment Spectrum (633) on 14 May 2009

This sophomore effort from the writing and directing duo of Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (Half Nelson) is not your typical sports movie, but rather…

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By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 14 May 2009

Sugar is a baseball movie in the way that Macbeth is a play about kilts…

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