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Chop Suey (2001)

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Average Rating: 6.1/10
Reviews Counted: 31
Fresh: 21 | Rotten: 10

Freeform in structure, Chop Suey captures the range of Weber's eclectic interests.

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Average Rating: 5.9/10
Critic Reviews: 9
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 3

Freeform in structure, Chop Suey captures the range of Weber's eclectic interests.

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Photographer and documentary filmmaker Bruce Weber looks at the lives of his subjects, the nature of the creative spirit, his inner drives and desires, and what fuels his own muse in this, his third feature film. Named for the popular Cantonese-American dish that brings together a diverse range of ingredients, Chop Suey jumps back and forth between a number of different themes and perspectives, using both videotape and a variety of film stocks to add a similar variety to the movie's look. Weber

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All Critics (39) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (21) | Rotten (10)

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

April 4, 2002 Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | Comment
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For a film by a photographer, it's awfully unfocused.

March 8, 2002 Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | Comment
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The most personal and accomplished of the several documentaries Weber has made over the years.

March 1, 2002 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | Comment
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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.

February 8, 2002 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
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It's a fascinating life and an interesting movie, but it's also a little evasive.

November 15, 2001 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | Comment
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Weber's talent works best when he's focusing on an object, not when he's giving us a wayward, free-associating travelogue of his visceral imagination.

October 8, 2001 Full Review Source: Newsday | Comment
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It's an eclectic film, held together only by Weber's ironic voice-over narration and the endless shots of the beautiful Johnson.

June 25, 2002 Full Review Source: BBC | Comment

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

June 4, 2002 Full Review Source: TheMovieChicks.com | Comment

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

May 31, 2002 Full Review Source: Film Experience | Comment
Film Experience

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

May 23, 2002 Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | Comment
St. Paul Pioneer Press

Sometimes maddeningly meandering, often intriguing.

April 5, 2002 Full Review Source: Seattle Times | Comment
Seattle Times

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

April 4, 2002 Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Comment
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