“The Alto Knights” is largely well shot, with compelling images of Manhattan that strike the balance between Genovese’s ...

Apparently, two Robert De Niros wasn’t enough to get audiences to see The Alto Knights, because the movie is releasing on ...

Barry Levinson and the writer of 'Goodfellas' revisit the world of American gangsters, exposing the dispute that exposed the organized crime world.

Goodfellas' and 'Casino' screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi brings a wealth of Mafia knowledge to a movie that traffics in ...

The Oscar-winning actor plays gangsters Frank Costello and Vito Genovese in a real-life crime film written by Nicholas Pileggi and co-starring Debra Messing. By Frank Scheck There are some good ...

The legendary actor plays opposite himself as rival gangsters in Levinson's "The Alto Knights." Even in this company, the relationship between Levinson and Robert De Niro is special. Since they fi ...

Some movies should be sure-fire hits. With the right cast and crew working together in perfect harmony, it’s hard not to make ...

The promise of Robert De Niro playing not one but two infamous gangsters might enough to tempt fans of Goodfellas or the Godfather trilogy into seeing The Alto Knights. But be warned. While the ...

Few actors have become synonymous with a particular genre like Robert De Niro. When we hear the term “mob movie,” we ...

Robert De Niro plays both Vito Genovese and Frank Costello in the Cincy-shot film "The Alto Knights," but are two De Niro's better than one?

The end result is that Barry Levinson’s otherwise sober-minded The Alto Knights too often feels like The Patty Duke Show if Patty and Cathy had become mafiosos. The screenplay by Nicholas Pileggi (yes ...

Barry Levinson’s Oscar doesn’t have pride of ... His latest, the mob drama The Alto Knights, is his fifth collaboration with Robert De Niro (including The Wizard of Lies, one of the four ...