Film Review - The Alto Knights
Two Robert De Niros for the price of one, but with half the impact, in Barry Levinson’s middling gangster drama
There’s a well-known rule-of-thumb writing guideline regarding adjectives: One plus one equals half. Two descriptive terms will have half the impact of one. A variation on this rule also seems to apply to the two-for-one Robert De Niro performances in The Alto Knights, a fact-based gangster drama from director Barry Levinson and G…
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