'The Alto Knights': Double dose of De Niro is half as good as it should be
The Oscar-winning actor plays both Frank Costello and Vito Genovese in Barry Levinson's lackluster Mafia movie, inspired by real life.
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The Alto Knights: Who were the real-life Genovese Crime Family? Details explored
The Alto Knights tells the story of two mob bosses who are at loggerheads. Nicholas Pileggi (who also wrote Goodfellas) wrote the biographical crime drama, which Barry Levinson directed.
‘The Alto Knights’ Review: It’s Double the Robert De Niro but Half the Fun in Barry Levinson’s Gimmicky Mafia Drama
The Oscar-winning actor plays gangsters Frank Costello and Vito Genovese in a real-life crime film written by Nicholas ...
'The Alto Knights' offers double the De Niro in a well-filmed, well-acted gangster period piece
The master plays both Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, infusing the two crime bosses with distinctive personalities.
CRIME HUNTER: New Mafia movie Alto Knights focuses on Costello-Genovese war
This is for you, Frank,” the young hitman snarled before firing at mob boss Frank Costello outside New York’s Waldorf-Astoria ...
De Niro faces off with himself in mob movie ‘The Alto Knights’
Martin Scorsese’s rueful, poignant 2019 film “The Irishman,” starring longtime collaborator Robert De Niro, was a reflection on (or perhaps even a eulogy for) the kind of gangster film that the pair ...
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In “The Alto Knights,” Robert De Niro Sings a Familiar Gangland Tune
The great veteran of Mafia roles, cast as the rival bosses Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, anchors Barry Levinson’s ...
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The Genovese Family’s Reputation Among the New York’s Five Families
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Dueling De Niros spar in ‘The Alto Knights,’ a tip of the fedora to an iconic actor
Goodfellas' and 'Casino' screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi brings a wealth of Mafia knowledge to a movie that traffics in ...
‘The Alto Knights’: Robert De Niro Is Twice as Bad Playing Two Gangsters in New Movie
Levinson’s film opens in 1957 with Frank being shot at the elevator of his Central Park West apartment building by Vincent Gigante (Cosmo Jarvis ... Frank striving to retire from the “family”—and to ...