The Alto Knights

Name: The Alto Knights
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Crime
Released: March 21, 2025
Rating: 47

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Warner Bros. | Release Date: March 21, 2025 | R

Summary: Two of New York’s most notorious organized crime bosses, Frank Costello and Vito Genovese (both played by Robert De Niro), vie for control of the city’s streets. Once the best of friends, petty jealousies and a series of betrayals place them on a deadly collision course that will reshape the Mafia (and America) forever.

Genre(s): Biography, Drama, History, Crime

Rating: R

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Perry Norton

Apr 2, 2025

The Alto Knights is an impressive film, taking inherently interesting material and doing very well not to foul it up. Sure, it’s something we’ve seen de Niro do before, but it leaves you wanting more of it, as he fits this mold perfectly. Read full review

Glenn Kenny

Mar 20, 2025

While it’s inevitable that some, maybe many, viewers will find the dual role a distraction, those who hunger for De Niro in mobster mode will get more than their fill. Read full review

Justin Chang

Apr 1, 2025

Toward the end, though, this dubious, shapeless patchwork of a movie does achieve a strange, halting power—by making an inquiry into the nature of power itself. Read full review

Screen Rant Mary Kassel

Mar 19, 2025

Fans of De Niro and the gangster movie will have fun with this addition to the genre, but they won't find anything new in its well-tread story. Read full review

The Film Verdict Alonso Duralde

Mar 19, 2025

Even with De Niro (and De Niro) in the leads, this is mob-movie cosplay, a hollow shadow of previous triumphs. As a mob lawyer might bellow, “Nothing to see here.” Read full review

Tim Grierson

Mar 19, 2025

And while the events depicted in The Alto Knights will result in a major law-enforcement action that profoundly shaped the American mafia, Levinson’s sombre, pedestrian approach captures neither the excitement nor the momentousness of the incident. Read full review

William Bibbiani

Mar 19, 2025

So let me be absolutely, 100% clear: “The Alto Knights” is indeed a bad movie, but not the good kind. It doesn’t make you feel alive, it makes you feel dead. It’s a tedious, directionless, bumbling chore of a gangster picture, incoherently written and edited, featuring two of the limpest performances of Robert De Niro’s career. Read full review

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