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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 ...

It’s always a pleasure to see De Niro toast his rivals’ downfall. The Alto Knights seems to be aiming for an elegiac tone similar to that of The Irishman, nostalgically mourning both a lost ...

Entertainment Inc. 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.

“The Alto Knights,” a crime thriller starring dueling Robert De Niros, made moviegoers an offer they easily refused. The Warner Bros. film was D.O.A. over the weekend with $3.2 million at the ...

“The Alto Knights” is steeped in Frank Costello’s mindset to a tedious extreme; it’s the last shot of “The Irishman” stretched out to 123 dramatically inert minutes of “haven’t we ...

If the ′60s sitcom “The Patty Duke Show” and the movie “Goodfellas” had a baby, it would look like “The Alto Knights.” For the first time in his illustrious career, Robert De Niro ...