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Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Infinity War was better
Having seen fewer Marvel movies than I could count on one hand, I was able to look at this movie for how it stands on its own. I did see Infinity War and one of the other Avengers titles, however. Overall, the story is a bit contrived and with all the time travel "escape clauses", not a fully satisfying conclusion. At the end we get what seems like an Olympic torch run of superheros passing around the family jewels. I guess there were too many contracts to satisfy. Undisciplined execution, overly long.
Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
Forgettable music
Excellent performances of thoroughly unimaginative music, a pale reflection of the original, which was all about the music. It's actually a little spooky hearing those lush Kostal orchestrations used on such dull new songs. The brief moments of excerpts from the original score were like glimmers in the darkness.
If you are a visual person and not concerned with hearing good songs in a musical you might like it.
It does look like they had a lot of fun making this movie, wish they had paid more attention to the score.