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- 2022
- PG
- Focus Features
- 2 h 4 m
- 2022
- PG
- Focus Features
- 2 h 4 m
Summary From award-winning creator Julian Fellowes comes the motion picture event Downton Abbey: A New Era. The much-anticipated cinematic return of the global phenomenon reunites the beloved cast as they go on a grand journey to the South of France to uncover the mystery of the Dowager Countess’ newly inherited villa.
Directed By: Simon Curtis
Written By: Julian Fellowes
- 2022
- PG
- Focus Features
- 2 h 4 m
- 2022
- PG
- Focus Features
- 2 h 4 m
Downton Abbey: A New Era
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6.4
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Summary From award-winning creator Julian Fellowes comes the motion picture event Downton Abbey: A New Era. The much-anticipated cinematic return of the global phenomenon reunites the beloved cast as they go on a grand journey to the South of France to uncover the mystery of the Dowager Countess’ newly inherited villa.
Directed By: Simon Curtis
Written By: Julian Fellowes
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 46 Critic Reviews
63
70% Positive
32 Reviews
32 Reviews
26% Mixed
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
4% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 46 Critic Reviews
63
70% Positive
32 Reviews
32 Reviews
26% Mixed
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
4% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
This is a movie for the fans—almost a gift, really. The last two-plus years have been a lot for everyone, and to escape to late 1920s England and France in all its splendor is a delight.
A New Era really, really should be the end of Downton Abbey, but I’d happily watch these freaks stumbling through the 1930s if they were so inclined to let me.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 34 User Ratings
6.4
62% Positive
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
21% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
18% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 34 User Ratings
6.4
62% Positive
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
21% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
18% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
A very well-made movie. I did not watch Downton Abbey on PBS, so I was sort of Lost as far as the characters were concerned.
But the plot went smooth. It's a very funny, emotional, and at times, sad movie.
I did enjoy it.
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Better than it’s predecessor in every single way. Incredibly charming and never boring. One of those movies that helps you escape to a better place
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The acting is splendid. Fellowes’ dialogue may not be subtle, but the actors are so familiar and at home in these roles that they make up for whatever is lacking.
It’s all a lot of poppycock, and yet! Despite all this carping, Downton Abbey: A New Era was as satisfying a filmgoing experience as I can remember. Perhaps the nonsensical narrative lowers viewers’ defenses so the emotional anvil can land all the harder.
The series’ many diehard fans will still, and should, flock to their beloved Downton and its denizens. But, as a standalone film, the fatigued period drama goes in one era and out the other with little to add.
Die-hard Downton fans aren’t going to grumble at the chance to spend more time with well-loved characters, and there are plenty of bright spots along the way.
It was disingenuous of the filmmakers to use the phrase “A New Era”, because the film relies wholly on its viewers’ affection for characters and situations they have seen many times before.
Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022, Simon Curtis) is everything we fans of the extraordinary ITV series love. It's made to entertain, to make you fall in love, to make you cry a river, but most of all to admire a line up of actresses and actors who are stunning on screen. John Lunn's best work for this universe. Simply exquisite.
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(Mauro Lanari)
"Hollywood is the ultimate dream factory. And I need dreams as much as the next man": a feel-good period movie that evokes cloying memories of Ivory's cinema would be a dream? "The point is individual Crawleys come and go, but the family lives on": once the matron dies, a newborn girl is born in the eternal cycle of life: apotheosis.
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adjective, worse, worst;(Slang) bad·der, bad·dest for 36.
not good in any manner or degree.
bad
[ bad ]
adjective, worse, worst;(Slang) bad·der, bad·dest for 36.
not good in any manner or degree.
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Watching this was an intensely boring and disappointing experience. It reminded me of an episode of The Love Boat, all these people coupling based on mere fiat and not a hint of real connection, everything being absurdly convenient, banal dialog, and everything contributing to a stultifying atmosphere without the slightest semblance of substance. The characters exist only to further the lame plot. And then there is the plague of our era, the forced emotions that come and go like foetid whiffs from a sewage lagoon. I was especially disgusted by Lord Grantham's nauseating breakdown and by the flippant final words of a certain venerable and salty elder. Yet another disgraceful and lazy money-grab capitalizing on a once-great show. Let shame and opprobrium be heaped upon everyone who took part in this travesty and let the creators soak for several eons in an infernal pond somewhere for this.
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Production Company
Universal Pictures,
Carnival Film & Television
Release Date May 20, 2022
Duration 2 h 4 m
Rating PG
Tagline The legacy continues.
Awards
CinEuphoria Awards
• 2 Nominations
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
• 1 Nomination
Golden Rooster Awards
• 1 Nomination
