Pereda remarkably handles the mise en scene, involving us in his game and in the performances of this fauna of diverse characters, where everything is playful and seemingly random. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 17, 2024

Pertinent and brilliant, but just a mere anecdotal occurrence... [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 23, 2022

Shot in long widescreen takes, this shaggy-dog exercise cloaks its sociopolitical commentary under seemingly casual, aimless absurdism.

| Mar 15, 2022

The film casts a spell, a memorably unconventional one that seems to stand in the mirror and tickle itself

| Jan 14, 2022

Pereda teases with and deconstructs the fictions typically associated with contemporary Mexican culture in a lean 70-minute running time that abounds in droll humor and bold conceptual play.

| Jul 29, 2021

Pereda shifts the narrative to concentrate on narrative within the narrative, enacting a pulpy book Gabino was reading. Pereda toys with the stereotypical roles in these scenarios from countless narco shows that dominate and perpetuate Mexican roles...

| Jul 25, 2021

True to [filmmaker Nicolás Pereda's] ironic and scathing style. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 19, 2021

The pitfalls of mere equivocation remain ... But at its not infrequent best, Fauna offers the thrill of creative evolution.

| Jun 5, 2021

Slowly reveals itself as a clever study in performance and identity that mines its cringe comedy to poke fun at contemporary narconovelas and their grip on that country's cultural imagination.

| Mar 12, 2021

It's an entertaining film; original, in it's own way, too, which is part of why it hurts so much that it never quite gets there, only ever grazing its lofty ambitions. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Oct 30, 2020

Base competency is perhaps the tragedy of Fauna, and many festival entries like it - they are adequate to the point of being unmemorable.

| Oct 1, 2020

"Fauna" is over as soon as it begins. Its critiques on the cultural obsession with violent content, and how fiction can bleed into reality for the most vulnerable target, are fleeting but deliver in their modest doses.

| Original Score: B | Sep 28, 2020

An absurd satire as exasperating as witty [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 23, 2020

Lyrical, haunting and at times extraordinarily funny, Fauna is a work best viewed twice, and with the clear understanding that even one revisit may not be enough.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 22, 2020

Not bad for a movie without an official screenplay credit.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 22, 2020

A brilliant metanarrative exercise. [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 21, 2020

Uniquely profound and sometimes hilarious, Fauna is one of Pereda's most memorable, enjoyable, and poignant works.

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Sep 18, 2020

Fauna has some smart things to say about how the drug trade and its attendant stereotypes have changed the Mexican popular imagination.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 18, 2020

A most delightful head-scratcher.

| Sep 18, 2020

With its beautiful wide shots of small-town Mexico, Pereda's Fauna cunningly mixes witty comedy with neo-noir suspense for a smart angle on the country's ongoing drug war.

| Sep 17, 2020