Brooklyn-based filmmakers Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden have followed up their self-assured 2006 feature debut, Half Nelson, with another success. Their new immigration/baseball drama, Sugar, may be the best American sports movie and the most touching immigration saga of the decade. As much as North [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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