Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
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(PG, 123 minutes)
3 stars
Franchises aren't confined to genre movies and cartoons. Julian Fellowes' long-running and popular saga has charted the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants from 1912 onward in a TV series, Christmas specials and now, three movies. Fans will already be buying their tickets and will no doubt rate it more highly than I, a non-devotee, did. Please forgive me, my lords and ladies. I did enjoy it.
The shadow of Dame Maggie Smith, who played the sharp-tongued Violet, the Dowager Countess of Grantham who kne