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Downton Abbey 3 stars
Less one big plot than a series of minor inconveniences dressed up as one (though you could argue that for the rich, a minor inconvenience is a great big plot), the only internationally important event that takes place in Downton Abbey is then treated as a minor inconvenience. Sumptuous though the film is to look at, Julian… Downton Abbey Read More
The Duchess 3.5 stars
*** Read my interview with The Duchess’s Oscar-winning costume designer Michael O’Connor *** Freedom is an absolute, the just-married Georgiana tells Whig politician Charles Fox in the 1770s, when it turns out that his progressive ideas to share power and wealth more equally among Britain’s citizens only really work for him if some are more… The Duchess Read More