'Downton Abbey: A New Era' review: pure Hollywood fantasy and happy endings

"The modern world comes to Downton," proclaims Lady Cora Crawley in the second Downton Abbey film, and indeed it has, with the next film-length instalment of Julian Fellowes' period drama bringing the franchise quite literally into A New Era.

It’s the early 1930s in England, and everyone at Downton seems…well, living...