The Alto Knights
Warner Bros. | Release Date: March 21, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
47
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 41 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
26
Negative:
5

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiMar 21, 2025
The plot goes nowhere glacially. Underdeveloped side characters are so far to the side, they’re out of frame. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeOdie HendersonMar 19, 2025
When we’re not being fed warmed-over narration and editing tricks that remind us of the Scorsese-directed examples, we’re trapped with a visibly disinterested De Niro. He barely gives one performance, let alone two. Read full review
37
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanMar 21, 2025
The speculative ending is actually the most intriguing thing about “The Alto Knights,” more interesting even than De Niro times two. And yet the film’s climax nevertheless fails to raise much of a heartbeat in this boglike slog through a momentous moment in murderous mob history. Read full review
30
ABC NewsPeter TraversMar 21, 2025
Even a double dose of the great Robert De Niro taking on the grandpa roles of feuding mob bosses Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, can’t lift this gimmicky, grating, draggy attempt to join the pantheon of classic gangster cinema. It’s a losing battle. Read full review
8
TheWrapWilliam BibbianiMar 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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