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Robert De Niro’s underwhelming double performance sinks The Alto Knights

2/5 The actor plays duelling real-life gangsters who weren’t twins nor even related, leaving this a bit of stunt casting that Barry Levinson’s long-in-the-works thriller struggles to justify

The Independent UK · Mar 19, 2025

The Alto Knights review – double De Niro makes for a laborious true-story mafioso movie

The actor plays Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, two warring mob bosses in 1950s New York, in a caper that lacks the richness of its writer’s earlier Goodfellas

The Guardian - UK · Mar 19, 2025

Robert De Niro talks playing dual roles in his new gangster movie from the co-writer of Goodfellas and Casino – and his surprising personal connection to the film

Exclusive: Robert De Niro talks The Alto Knights, the new gangster movie scripted by Nicholas Pileggi

Total Film · Mar 17, 2025