“The Alto Knights,” Barry Levinson’s new film ... The subject matter is compelling — who doesn’t love a good gangster movie, especially one based on real people and events?

Named after a New York social club frequented in the 1950s by the Luciano and Genovese crime families, "The Alto Knights" hits theaters ... place in the pantheon of gangster cinema.

Robert De Niro adds another gangster movie to his resume with The Alto Knights, but perhaps he would have been better served to let this one sleep with the fishes. Though the movie, based on the ...

As you’re reminded of all these other films, it becomes clear that “The Alto Knights” is more interesting ... as an actor and signifier of the gangster movie — looms so large that only ...

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 ...