Night and the City (1992 film) De Niro's work as "more like a riff on Rupert Pupkin, the goofy talk show fan he played in Scorsese's "The King of Comedy"". Ebert and Howe both agreed, however, that Alan King's performance was fantastic. Owen Gleiberman concurred in his review, but he sided with Ebert regarding De Niro, concluding, "the actor who once seemed the heir to Brando, Clift, and, yes, Widmark — the actor who once got so far inside his roles that he just about detonated the screen — now plays characters who don't seem to have any inner life at all." David Ansen praised the
Robert De Niro Sr. Art Museum, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Wadsworth Atheneum, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Yellowstone Art Museum. DC Moore Gallery represents the Estate of Robert De Niro Sr. The first exhibition of his works at the gallery was in April 2012. In June 2014, "Robert De Niro Sr. Paintings and Drawings, 1948–1989" opened at DC Moore Gallery. Robert De Niro Sr. died of cancer on the morning of May 3, 1993 (his 71st birthday) at his Manhattan home. He is interred at Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New