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" 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

It's all absurd and enjoyable, and yet to spend one minute in his Donald's company is to realize something is wrong with him. This is not someone who can function in the world - and that's not funny.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 8, 2017

Never feels like more than a malnourished Adam McKay movie that lacks even in laughs.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 3, 2017

The movie forcefully reminds you that the past you thought you had left behind still hurts, and that the old wounds you imagined had healed have simply been covered over.

| Mar 2, 2017

Donald Cries demonstrates that cringeworthy isn't necessarily the same as funny.

| Mar 2, 2017

Simultaneously tense, funny and melancholic, "Donald Cried" could almost be called "Man-Child by the Sea."

| Mar 2, 2017

Deserves credit for making an effort to do something marginally different with its central doofus.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 1, 2017

In a bitterly funny performance, Avedisian lets Donald's freak flag fly, a big-toothed grin lighting up his face, framed by a shaggy haircut not deliberate enough to be a mullet.

| Feb 28, 2017

A perfect illustration of Freud's links between jokes and the unconscious-or just why it sucks to go home-Kris Avedisian's debut feature is essential post-holiday viewing.

| Jan 3, 2017

Finding the drama and humor in everyday situations like these isn't easy, but Avedisian makes it look as natural as swinging on a vine.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 21, 2016

"Donald Cried" suggests the shadings of a psychological thriller stuffed into the mold of a boisterous R-rated comedy.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 21, 2016

Waterworks are sparse in "Donald Cried," but there's plenty of anxious, cringe-inducing humor to be found in writer-director-star Kris Avedisian's comedy of discomfort.

| Mar 13, 2016