The camera's focused on a group of young men, each more handsome than the next. They have the kind of fit bodies you only find at the Olympics or on the cover of GQ. Filmmaker Bruce Weber wistfully says, "We sometimes photograph things we can never be."

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 27, 2023

The interconnected, easily flowing montages create a moving rumination on the profound, blurred relationship between artist and subject.

| May 25, 2022

'Chop Suey' strives to be avant-garde and trendy. For many, it will be.

| Jun 28, 2014

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 30, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 16, 2004

It's an eclectic film, held together only by Weber's ironic voice-over narration and the endless shots of the beautiful Johnson.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 25, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 15, 2002

Beautiful photography. Too bad the film is like a custom car up on blocks - nice to look at but it doesn't go anywhere.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 4, 2002

...an alternately beautiful and annoying scrapbook of a film. And just as its title suggests, it's a mixed bag.

| May 31, 2002

Even the misspellings and ramblings fit into the loosey-goosey, associative framework.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 23, 2002

Sometimes maddeningly meandering, often intriguing.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 5, 2002

[Johnson is] utterly beautiful but he's about as compelling as a Pet Rock.

| Original Score: C | Apr 4, 2002

It's as amusing, varied and instantly forgettable as an issue of Vanity Fair or Vogue, minus the fragrance samples.

| Original Score: B | Apr 4, 2002

For a film by a photographer, it's awfully unfocused.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Mar 8, 2002

With footage of Faye in performance, and interviews with her friends and associates, Weber uses Faye as base from which to branch out in bizarre directions.

| Mar 7, 2002

The most personal and accomplished of the several documentaries Weber has made over the years.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 1, 2002

Spending time with Weber and hearing his stories makes you realize you might be listening to the secret of a happy life.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 11, 2002

Anybody who expects this film to be nothing more than the equivalent of flipping through the advertisements in a slick magazine is in for a surprise.

| Feb 8, 2002

Weber's eclectic, grandly engaging documentary, is as personal as movies get, a generous and candid first-person exploration of the wide-ranging influences that inform the photographer's work.

Full Review | Feb 1, 2002