“The Alto Knights,” Barry Levinson’s new film, is an interesting but somewhat flat depiction of the intertwined lives of real-life New York gangsters Vito Genovese and Frank Costell ...

Directed by Barry Levinson, the movie The Alto Knights shows Robert De Niro playing mob bosses Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, whose friendship fades as they wage a brutal war with each other ...

Robert De Niro plays the crime lords Vito Genovese and Frank Costello in this film ... to be lifting a little from his old co-star Joe Pesci. His Costello, however, is a jovial glad-hander ...

Frank Costello, the acting head of the Luciano crime ... His voice jumps nearly an octave, approaching the tessitura of Joe Pesci in “Goodfellas,” and with a hair-trigger temper to match.