Sugar (2009) Critic Reviews
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In its unhurried fashion, Sugar can take its place with the best baseball movies. Where most focus on the grand slam, this one's about the life that surrounds the game and everything that comes after.Read the full review
It is both sad and hopeful, but the film's sorrow and its optimism arise from its rarest and most thrilling quality, which is its deep and humane honesty.Read the full review
A film of rare intelligence, beauty and compassion.Read the full review
Sugar is that sweetest of films: A sensitive and memorable story that surprises at every turn.Read the full review
Algenis Perez Soto plays the character so openly, so naturally, that an interesting thing happens: Baseball is only the backdrop, not the subject. This is a wonderful film.Read the full review
The result is raw and riveting.Read the full review
Instead of hitting all the usual beats, Sugar just moseys in a mostly delightful way.Read the full review
The film's style is so ''objective'' it's a bit subdued, yet this is a sports drama of total originality, as well as the most authentic inside view of the immigrant experience the movies have given us in quite a while.Read the full review
The most remarkable thing Sugar does is give American viewers a sense of how our country must seem to a newly arrived immigrant, without caricaturing or condescending to either guest or host.Read the full review
As good as it is because of the care and skill writer-directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck bring to it, gifts that were visible in their first film, "Half Nelson," which earned a lead actor Oscar nomination for Ryan Gosling.Read the full review
