Reception
Sugar was received very well by critics on its original release. The film ranking website Rotten Tomatoes reported that 93% of critics had given the film positive reviews, based upon a sample of 95. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film has received an average score of 82, based on 26 reviews. AFI also named the film among its Top 10 for 2009.
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