Strong performances from Michelle Dockery, Hugh Bonneville and more lift up Julian Fellowes obvious dialogue in the second film to spin off of the hit TV show.
Movie review: Downton Abbey: A New Era rushes through endearing reunion. Downton Abbey: A New Era, in theaters May 20, drops viewers right back into the world of 1920s England. New viewers don t get so much as an introduction to each character, so the film definitely feels like it s continuing a conversation as if everyone is familiar. Newbies will still be able to catch up in short order.
"A New Era" picks up two years after the previous film, with the 1930s just around the corner. Violet Crawley (Maggie Smith) receives word that she's inherited an extravagant villa in the south of France from an ex-lover, which prompts Lord Grantham (Hugh Bonneville), Cora (Elizabeth McGovern), and Lady Edith (Laura Carmichael), along with a