Every Best Picture Oscar Winner Ranked Worst To Best

Frank Lloyd’s epic adaptation of Noël Coward’s play Cavalcade is epic and frustratingly wonky, using its historical framework to interesting effect but doing very little with its unengaging characters and their distractingly dull family drama.

This is the kind of movie that seems to have a clear sense of what it wants, before its biggest flaws start to overshadow its promise. There’s a strong film in here somewhere, complete with compelling themes of love and friendship with historical implications, but it's buried.