"Knockaround Guys" is the newest in a line of mafia-tied movies out to give you some bada-bing for your movie buck (and, certainly, to cash in on the success of "The Sopranos"). And, though it tries ...

A bargain basement “Reservoir Dogs,” “Knockaround Guys” is a generic mobster film. Perhaps some junior studio executive smelled a profitable ride on the coattails of “The Sopranos”–or some residual ...

Screenwriters Brian Koppelman and David Levien, who teamed on "Rounders," continue to frequent the underworld in their assured directing debut "Knockaround Guys," a well-constructed tale of midlevel ...

Matty Demarest (Barry Pepper) and his friends are the scions of mobsters living now trying to make names for themselves in the modern era. They have the infamous last names that strike fear into the ...

What to make of Knockaround Guys, a film that can’t make up its mind whether it wants to be The Godfather, a mob-ified knockoff of Fargo or a big-screen version of The Sopranos? Not much. Dennis ...

"Knockaround Guys" has been knocking around Hollywood's calendar for so long that one of its supporting players, Vin Diesel, became a superstar since it first showed up on the schedule.

“Knockaround Guys” is one of those strained caper movies that’s hardly any fun to watch and begins to vaporize from your memory minutes after it ends. The picture was written and directed by Brian ...

There's a scene at the beginning of Knockaround Guys that seems to suggest a much deeper, darker, and smarter film than the rest of the picture ever gives us: A 13-year-old kid, Matty, is ordered by ...

It's been maybe a year since principal photography wrapped on Knockaround Guys, and New Line is still looking to land a release date for the film. They had one, January 12, but it was ditched for 13 ...

They're fish out of water, these junior mobsters from Brooklyn skulking around a sleepy Montana town trying to recover some missing loot. Knockaround Guys mixes up a few different genres -- in ...