After Last Night’s Premiere, The Downton Abbey Movie Reviews Are In

The reviews for the Downton Abbey movie are in. (And they are, probably, entirely what you'd expect.)

Michelle Dockery (Lady Mary), Hugh Bonneville (Lord Grantham), Joanne Froggatt (Anna) and Maggie Smith (the Dowager Countess) have all returned for Downton’s big screen outing to varying reviews, which arrived after the film's premiere in London last night.

Giving the film three stars, The Telegraph's Tim Robey wrote, 'Upscaling the cosy charms of the series hasn't entirely worked, in that you couldn't say this comfortably belongs in a cinema at any stage. Watching it is like settling into a reupholstered armchair which still creaks in the same old places.'

The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw also awarded the film three stars, writing, 'it is at all times ridiculous – but, I have to admit, quite enjoyable.'

While most reviews were generally good-but-not-great, the New York Post's Johnny Oleksinskibranded the film adaptation as 'forced and unnecessary', giving it one-and-a-half stars.

After six highly successful seasons, Downton Abbey bowed out on Christmas Day in 2015 with a feature-length special episode.

Downton Abbey is released in UK cinemas on September 13.