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Apparently, two Robert De Niros wasn’t enough to get audiences to see The Alto Knights, because the movie is releasing on ...
“The Alto Knights” is largely well shot, with compelling images of Manhattan that strike the balance between Genovese’s ...
As an adult drama based on a true story released into theaters by a major studio, "The Alto Knights" feels like a film from a bygone era. Written by Nicholas Pileggi ("Goodfellas") and starring Robert ...
It's been 10 years since Barry Levinson directed a new feature, and if that seems like a long wait, I should note that it's taken 50 years for The Alto Knights, his new movie, to make it to the big ...
Barry Levinson and the writer of 'Goodfellas' revisit the world of American gangsters, exposing the dispute that exposed the organized crime world.
One can almost envision Levinson pitching The Alto Knights to a studio stating it’s a new spin on the mob movie by having one of our all-time great actors play two parts. De Niro’s performance ...
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 ...
Goodfellas' and 'Casino' screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi brings a wealth of Mafia knowledge to a movie that traffics in ...
On paper, “The Alto Knights” looks like a project that can’t miss. A gangster movie starring Robert DeNiro, penned by Nicholas Pileggi (the writer of “Goodfellas” and “Casino”) and directed by Barry ...
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 ...