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Goodfellas' and 'Casino' screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi brings a wealth of Mafia knowledge to a movie that traffics in constant nods to other gangster classics.
Robert De Niro plays Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, for some reason, in a gangster film that’s so bad, it’s actually bad ...
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 ...
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Robert De Niro plays rival mob bosses in a new biographical crime drama. But while it's fun to watch De Niro argue with himself, The Alto Knights ultimately feels dubious and derivative.
Review: ‘The Alto Knights’ brings together some of Hollywood ... There are moments of brilliance, and De Niro remains the undisputed king of gangster cinema, but the film never becomes ...
Named after a New York social club frequented in the 1950s by the Luciano and Genovese crime families, "The Alto Knights" hits theaters ... place in the pantheon of gangster cinema.
The legendary actor’s first attempt at a dual role is all gimmick, no substance in director Barry Levinson’s true-life gangster saga ... look like “The Alto Knights.” ...
Barry Levinson and the writer of 'Goodfellas' revisit the world of American gangsters, exposing the dispute that exposed the organized crime world.
“The Alto Knights,” Barry Levinson’s new film ... The subject matter is compelling — who doesn’t love a good gangster movie, especially one based on real people and events?
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 ...