Director Barry Levinson has been in a career freefall for quite some time, possibly dating back to 1998’s “Sphere” if you want to be completely ruthless about it (weirdly, he’s done his best work on cable productions). And yet, he continues to find employment, often on movies few people see, including 2015’s “Rock the Kasbah” and 2021’s “The Survivor.” Levinson returns once again with “The Alto Knights,” out to craft a very Martin Scorsese-esque tale of aging gangsters with help from “Goodfellas,” “Casino,” and “The Irishman” screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi, and one that’s not shy to rehash elements from those pictures. “The Alto Knights” hopes to be another epic of crime bosses and their anxieties, putting Pileggi back to work cooking up allegiances and double-crosses, shoveling in all the wise guy conversations he possibly can, likely reaching a level of torture for some viewers. Levinson has been here before, dealing with period ornamentation (“Diner,” “Tin Men,” “Avalon”) and gangster cinema (“Bugsy”), but he has little control over this offering, which is too meandering to matter, unable to find any peaks of drama as it stumbles from one scene to the next. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com