"Something Like a Confessional Manifesto from the Emerging Director"

"All the talk in 'Too Late Blues' of integrity and authenticity seems even more significant in light of the career Cassavetes went on to forge. Despite a certain mannered slickness, the film is proof of his inability, even under clear constraints, to make anything less than a deeply personal work."

Dennis Lim in the Los Angeles Times revisits John Cassavetes's 1962 movie, Too Late Blues.