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Santa Sangre has generally received very positive reviews.
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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 01 Jan 2000
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Santa Sangre was released in 1989 and has generally received very positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 313 reviews, giving Santa Sangre (1989) an average rating of 77%.
Overall, cinema-goers marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 88%, compared to film critics, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 80%.
With a score of 77%, Santa Sangre is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1989, which stands at 57%.
Other movies from 1989 with similar scores include films like sex, lies, and videotape and Driving Miss Daisy.
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