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

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

"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

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

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

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