The shocking flop of Robert De Niro's 2025 mob film exposes the cracks in the genre that made him famous.

On paper, The Alto Knights seems like an easy lay-up: a crime epic about the downfall of the American Mafia written by Goodfellas scribe Nicholas Pileggi (who wrote the original novel Wiseguy, the ...

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 ...

Robert De Niro may be 81 years old, but he’s still the mafia movie king, and his latest crime thriller, The Alto Knights, opens in theaters this weekend. Directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Barry ...

Apparently, two Robert De Niros wasn’t enough to get audiences to see The Alto Knights, because the movie is releasing on digital platforms tomorrow, just three weeks after the movie opened in ...

The problem with calling a movie “bad” is that some people, myself included, will only want to see it more. It’s fun to hear about a good movie. It’s boring to hear about a mediocre one. But a film ...

Robert De Niro’s returns to the mob movie genre with “The Alto Knights,” and it’s hitting theaters on Friday. De Niro pulls double duty in the biographical drama, as he stars two of New York’s most ...

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 ...