Grab the popcorn for the latest releases. Downton Abbey (PG)Towards the dewy-eyed conclusion of Downton Abbey, a handsomely appointed return to the award-winning period drama created by Julian Fellowes, Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery) considers bidding a hearty cheerio to her ancestral home.‘What are we doing? Should we really go on with it?’ she ponders aloud. It’s a fair question, not just for the heiress apparent as she contemplates her future, but also for Michael Engler’s film, which seeks to recapture the guilty pleasure of a TV phenomenon that chronicled the wavering fortunes of the Crawley family across six series from the sinking of HMS Titanic in 1912 to New Year’s Day 1926.Ardent fans can unstiffen their upper lips with relief because the glassware gleams and the bone china is lustrous in this crowd-pleasing frippery of froth, which assiduously ties up loose narrative threads and unpicks a few new ones.Cinematographer Ben Smithard captures the Jacobethan splendour of Highclere Castle, the real-life Downton Abbey, in every conceivable flattering light while Fellowes serves up bite-size morsels of intrigue and romance to generate a steady trickle of conflicts, resolutions and cliffhangers.He makes no concession to newcomers to his rarefied world and expects a passable knowledge… Read full this story
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