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By Mike V (837) on 19 Apr 2009

This is not just a sports movie, but is also really a very human story about the the difficulties that a foreign baseball player who speaks…

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By Brian W (1,331) on 19 Apr 2009

Consider this my first review of the year…

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By Gino P (104) on 16 Apr 2009

It's good - the middle part of the movie sorta drags on but it's a good movie…

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By Rick Groen (1,350) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 16 Apr 2009

Mainly, though, the film's strength is reportorial, sensitively exploring a theme that has grown ever more prominent with the globalization of sport…

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By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 16 Apr 2009

This is a drama of shifting values and compromised ideals, arriving at a view of life that's wise, complicated, and tinged with melancholy…

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By Jim Slotek (879) for Jam! Movies (2,396) on 16 Apr 2009

[A] terrifically human account of a young Dominican pitcher's discomfiting odyssey from his tiny village to a major league training camp to…

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By Peter Sobczynski (1,159) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 15 Apr 2009

They have instead chosen a low-key and realistic approach that is so effective that when I saw the film for the first time, I was convinced…

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By Claudia Puig (2,080) for USA Today (4,117) on 15 Apr 2009

Sugar is that sweetest of films: A sensitive and memorable story that surprises at every turn…

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By Justin Strout (143) for Orlando Weekly (1,048) on 15 Apr 2009

The approach is flighty at best and a cinematic bait-and-switch at worst…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 15 Apr 2009

Algenis Perez Soto plays the character so openly, so naturally, that an interesting thing happens: Baseball is only the backdrop, not the subject…

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By Susan Granger (2,214) for SSG Syndicate (1,551) on 15 Apr 2009

An authentic, timely immigrant experience tale about trying to score…

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By Ian M (1,478) on 13 Apr 2009

Excellent film about a young Dominican mans journey to America to make it big in pro baseballl and the subsequent sense of alienation he experiences…

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By Shelleyann S (1) on 10 Apr 2009

If you saw HALF NELSON you know what Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck are capable of. If you didn't, see SUGAR. If you did, see SUGAR…

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By Tony Medley (1,109) for Tolucan Times (639) on 10 Apr 2009

an interesting tale of a young man devoted to his family back home, trying to come to grips with surviving in a completely different culture…

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By Jeff T (375) on 10 Apr 2009

If you saw HALF NELSON you know what Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck are capable of. If you didn't, see SUGAR. If you did, see SUGAR…

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By Robert Davis (91) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 09 Apr 2009

Some of the surprise of seeing a major new talent appear from thin air is lost in even a strong sophomore effort, but Boden and Fleck have…

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By Jonathan Curiel (75) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 09 Apr 2009

A gripping look at the immigrant experience, with small moments as important - and visually arresting - as any on the baseball diamond…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 08 Apr 2009

In its unhurried fashion, Sugar can take its place with the best baseball movies…

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By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR (1,713) on 08 Apr 2009

The filmmakers have mostly cast from Dominican playing fields rather than from acting studios -- Algenis Perez Soto, the accomplished first-time…

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By Cynthia Fuchs (1,328) for PopMatters (2,617) on 06 Apr 2009

In this carefully observed and impressively minimalist movie, Sugar redefines and refines his art…

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