Now, he plays a pair of wise guys. In “The Alto Knights,” DeNiro plays not one, but two infamous mobsters: Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, a pair of mafia leaders who grew to power in tandem ...

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 ...

The Alto Knights stars De Niro as Frank Costello, a respected mafioso on the edges of legitimacy. It also stars De Niro as Costello’s lifelong friend Vito Genovese, a much seedier gangster who returns ...

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 ...

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There’s a presumed weight and urgency to The Alto Knights, considering not only the talent involved, but the fact its story has been bouncing around Hollywood since the late Seventies ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Tasmania Devils executives Brendon Gale and Grant O'Brien on Tuesday. Image / Bradley Moylon The debut of Tasmania’s distinctive new AFL mascot ‘Rum’un’ has triggered a wave of colourful commentary ...