If we've all known at least one Donald in our lives, then we've all been a Peter at one point or another.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 28, 2021

This movie has been done before in the past and will be done even more in the future. It's not my type of movie but there are elements that you can find positive about it even if the movie doesn't click with you.

| Mar 16, 2021

Avedisian maintains an even hand in depicting this oddball friendship and skirts sentimentalism in what turns out to be an amusing film.

| Feb 27, 2020

The film's initial squirm inducing dissolves in its own dissolute, bitter broth.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 5, 2019

There's an emotional core to the character that subverts the standard of the man-child genre which makes Donald Cried a darkly comic, emotionally honest piece of filmmaking.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 1, 2018

A sharply funny debut that considers whether flawed people can ever truly recognize their own faults.

| Aug 21, 2018

The movie has some storytelling issues, but you won't soon forget [Kris] Avedisian's comic creation...

| Feb 2, 2018

The movie constantly makes us shift perspectives as it lurches from comedy to psychodrama.

| Dec 29, 2017

Donald Cried is a cringe dramedy that will resonate most strongly with those old enough to have walked this path, and there is some finely observed details about male friendship woven through the shaggy plot.

| Dec 19, 2017

The crushing part of Donald Cried is that although it is a comedy, and that much of the titular goofball's antics are funny, it seems like we all know our own Donald in some form or another

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 5, 2017

Where Donald Cried really works is in situating the audience firmly in third-wheel status, gradually revealing a more nuanced and toxic relationship between the two leads.

| Aug 22, 2017

Donald Cried is a sympathetic buddy film with much to say about friendship, self-conceitedness, and complacency.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 2, 2017

The characters are so utterly believable.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 23, 2017

Donald Cried employs that darkly comedic, funny but almost unwatchable sensibility that is slowly becoming... the dominant vocabulary of modern funniness -- but its sharp realism makes it a unique chunk of low-budget gold.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 23, 2017

...you have to admire Avedisian for pushing his repulsive character beyond the limits of social acceptance (as far as Peter is concerned), and for directing such a focused drama as a first feature.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 18, 2017

Donald Cried may not make you laugh, but every moment of it will make you feel.

| Mar 17, 2017

A ballsy debut by [writer-director-star] Avedisian and one that's not to be missed.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 17, 2017

Donald Cried is free of "nice guy" characters and never relies on raunchy humor, the exclusions of which give the movie a greater sense of verisimilitude.

| Original Score: 7.8/10 | Mar 16, 2017

"Donald Cried" succeeds on its own modest terms, but watching its title character can be painful. This is not a movie for people who'd just as soon forget their own teenage mortifications.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 16, 2017

A gaspingly funny, squirm-inducing comedy of embarrassment.

| Mar 9, 2017