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 President of the Jury for the 64th Cannes Film Festival. In 2012, he starred in the films "Silver Linings Playbook", "Freelancers", "Red Lights", and "Being Flynn". He received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in "Silver Linings Playbook". In July 2018 it was announced that De Niro would appear in Todd Phillips' 2019 film ""Joker"" which will be an origin story based on the Batman comic book supervillain The Joker who will be played by Joaquin Phoenix. De Niro's capital ventures have included co-founding the film studio TriBeCa Productions, the Tribeca Film Festival,