In 2019, the film ended up being worthy of the legacy talk, as it’s an epic on a tier with De Niro’s best – but six years later, Barry Levinson’s The Alto Knights feels like a drop of ...

It's been 10 years since Barry Levinson directed a new feature, and if that seems like a long wait, I should note that it's taken 50 years for The Alto Knights, his new movie, to make it to the ...

Robert De Niro adds another gangster movie to his resume with The Alto Knights, but perhaps he would have been better served to let this one sleep with the fishes. Though the movie, based on the ...

There’s a scene near the limp climax of Barry Levinson’s utterly somnambulant The Alto Knights in which Vito Genovese (De Niro) argues violently with his meathead driver and muscle Vincent ...

Review: New drama 'Adolescence ... New York -- an event said to mark the beginning of the end for the mafia -- might have been Frank's doing. Don't look to "The Alto Knights" for answers.

A tale of two Bobbies: De Niro as Vito Genovese (left) and Frank Costello While his Costello feels like a fully-rounded character, both as his career progresses over the years and as the ageing ...

Barry Levinson’s The Alto Knights promises a gripping look at the power struggle between two of the most influential Mafia bosses of the 1950s, Vito Genovese and Frank Costello. With legendary actor ...

Robert De Niro adds another gangster movie to his resume with The Alto Knights, but perhaps he would have been better served to let this one sleep with the fishes. Though the movie, based on the true ...

The Kings are best known as masters of the modern procedural, packing religious allegory (“Evil”) or political scheming (“The Good Wife”) into sub-50-minute boxes that feel elegantly ...

If you were to stitch all of the greatest hits of the gangster genre into a single movie, you could do a whole lot worse than Barry Levinson’s The Alto Knights. Written by Nicholas Pileggi (who ...

And we all chuckle. They probably all chuckled on set, too. Because the man playing Vito in “The Alto Knights” is none other than Robert De Niro, indeed one of the best actors in the world ...

But most of The Alto Knights focuses on the cool-headed Frank, whose politicking is more Starmer than Trump. Nevertheless, this is a reminder of De Niro’s incredible talents, because with the ...