With Joe Pesci, seven times. With Al Pacino in Heat and The Irishman. But De Niro pitted against De Niro in The Alto Knights? Forget about it – an instruction that’s sadly all too easy to obey.

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 ...

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 ...

So how about De Niro playing not one but two Mafia kingpins in the same movie? That's what we've got in "The Alto Knights" (in theaters Friday), the true story of friends-turned-enemies Frank ...

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Robert De Niro plays the crime lords Vito Genovese and Frank Costello in this film about midcentury Mafia moves. By Glenn Kenny When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film ...

The Oscar winner is his own worst enemy in this Mob drama about the 1950s gangland war between Frank Costello and Vito Genovese ...

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“The Alto Knights” spans multiple decades, as Pileggi’s detailed script rewinds to explain how a group of amoral immigrants exploited Prohibition, which Frank wryly describes as a policy no ...

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The same could be said for the performances by the now 81-year-old Robert De Niro in last month’s Netflix limited series “Zero Day” and in the feature film “The Alto Knights,” which has ...