The prevailing feeling throughout The Alto Knights‘ is that it should’ve been made 20 years ago. Too much of the film feels like a replay of Martin Scorsese‘s greatest hits.

| Apr 26, 2025

The Alto Knights is a decent film. When it relies on the classic elements of gangster cinema,...it offers a compelling story, and although smaller in scale, it's no less interesting than Scorsese's epics. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Apr 22, 2025

There are moments of brilliance, and De Niro remains the undisputed king of gangster cinema, but the film never becomes more than the sum of its parts.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 20, 2025

Robert De Niro returns to mafia stories with Barry Levinson, in a dual performance that is intended to be the main attraction of the production. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: C | Apr 17, 2025

This movie proves two Robert De Niros are not better than one.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Apr 16, 2025

The story of The Alto Knights and how the New York mafia crumbled due to the rivalry between Costello and Genovese is a fascinating one, and there are hints of it scattered throughout the runtime, but it comes up short often

| Original Score: C- | Apr 14, 2025

...The Alto Knights is an interesting film about the mafia world, with several notable aspects, but it doesn't reach the level of the best works of Scorsese, Coppola, or De Palma. [Full review in Spanish]

| Apr 11, 2025

Barry Levinson's supposedly ambitious mob drama misses the mark.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 11, 2025

Rather than being a distraction, the highlight here is De Niro playing opposite himself. Double the actor unfortunately doesn’t make the film twice as good, but if you love mobster films, I couldn’t think of better company than this bunch.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 9, 2025

The Alto Knights won’t be remembered among the greats of crime movies, or even as a standout in De Niro’s career. Diverting in parts, but ultimately a film that you wish was much better than it is.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 8, 2025

This feels like a Netflix mini-series edited down to two sleepy, derivative hours.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 7, 2025

Yet, tragically, the resulting film from Rain Main’s Barry Levinson is a lacklustre effort considering the talent on offer.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 4, 2025

Robert De Niro is a force of nature, even in the worst of films.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Apr 4, 2025

De Niro leads another enjoyable Italian American Gangster story with all the cloak and dagger intrigue we’ve come to anticipate. The Alto Knights had dialogue that felt like foreshadowing but mostly didn’t materialise so resulted in old man talking.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2025

The Alto Knights is an impressive film, taking inherently interesting material and doing very well not to foul it up.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 1, 2025

Even if the results lack the heady rush of a GoodFellas, The Alto Knights gives the old-school pleasures of densely plotted, keenly cast Mafia movies a fitfully engaging workout.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2025

Isn’t boring, and it affords the opportunity to appreciate Robert De Niro’s virtuosity as he runs the gamut of mobster characterization in his two roles. But as a whole it’s a pale reflection of the classics of the genre he made in earlier days.

| Original Score: C | Apr 1, 2025

I expected better.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 31, 2025

Has the anonymous look and shaggy storytelling of an HBO original movie — from 1998.

| Original Score: C- | Mar 30, 2025

More interesting in the context of Robert De Niro’s filmography than it is necessarily as a standalone picture.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 29, 2025