I still wonder what the correlation is between bigger talent names and marketing budgets. Seems to me 'better film' is way too relative, even with awards. Never mind critics' reviews, which are arguably skewed by marketing dollars, unless the film is really flat-out terrible and even then...
Not necessarily. There have been quite a few films with an All-Star cast that have ended up being ‘duds’.
The fact that your list of famous names who have the highest correlation with quality are all White is discouraging.
I still wonder what the correlation is between bigger talent names and marketing budgets. Seems to me 'better film' is way too relative, even with awards. Never mind critics' reviews, which are arguably skewed by marketing dollars, unless the film is really flat-out terrible and even then...