1 The Chronicles of Narnia The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe Average Sales per Theater: $18,129 Metacritic Score: 77 IMDb Average: 7.7 Box Office Rank: #1 Weeks in Release: 1 | Last Week's Rank: -- BUZZ SCORE: 31.40 | Official Site

2 Brokeback Mountain Average Sales per Theater: $109,485 Metacritic Score: 87 IMDb Average: 8.0 Box Office Rank: #15 Weeks in Release: 1 | Last Week's Rank: -- BUZZ SCORE: 31.30 | Official Site

3 Syriana Average Sales per Theater: $6,699 Metacritic Score: 76 IMDb Average: 7.3 Box Office Rank: #2 Weeks in Release: 3 | Last Week's Rank: 1 BUZZ SCORE: 27.50 | Official Site

4 Memoirs of a Geisha Average Sales per Theater: $85,313 Metacritic Score: 55 IMDb Average: 6.6 Box Office Rank: #14 Weeks in Release: 1 | Last Week's Rank: -- BUZZ SCORE: 26.80 | Official Site

5 Transamerica Average Sales per Theater: $10,686 Metacritic Score: 66 IMDb Average: 8.4 Box Office Rank: #52 Weeks in Release: 2 | Last Week's Rank: 3 BUZZ SCORE: 25.90 | Official Site

6 Mrs. Henderson Presents Average Sales per Theater: $9,224 Metacritic Score: 70 IMDb Average: 7.1 Box Office Rank: #39 Weeks in Release: 1 | Last Week's Rank: -- BUZZ SCORE: 25.52 | Official Site

7 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Average Sales per Theater: $2,753 Metacritic Score: 81 IMDb Average: 7.8 Box Office Rank: #3 Weeks in Release: 4 | Last Week's Rank: 2 BUZZ SCORE: 24.45 | Official Site

8 Pride and Prejudice Average Sales per Theater: $1,932 Metacritic Score: 82 IMDb Average: 7.5 Box Office Rank: #8 Weeks in Release: 5 | Last Week's Rank: 4 BUZZ SCORE: 22.93 | Official Site

9 Walk the Line Average Sales per Theater: $1,891 Metacritic Score: 72 IMDb Average: 8.0 Box Office Rank: #4 Weeks in Release: 4 | Last Week's Rank: 5 BUZZ SCORE: 22.79 | Official Site

10 Capote Average Sales per Theater: $1,631 Metacritic Score: 8.9 IMDb Average: 8.2 Box Office Rank: #21 Weeks in Release: 11 | Last Week's Rank: 6 BUZZ SCORE: 22.73 | Official Site

11 The Squid and the Whale Average Sales per Theater: $1,917 Metacritic Score: 82 IMDb Average: 7.8 Box Office Rank: #23 Weeks in Release: 10 | Last Week's Rank: 7 BUZZ SCORE: 21.72 | Official Site

12 Good Night, and Good Luck. Average Sales per Theater: $1,050 Metacritic Score: 80 IMDb Average: 8.1 Box Office Rank: #16 Weeks in Release: 10 | Last Week's Rank: 8 BUZZ SCORE: 21.65 | Official Site

The film version of the fantasy classic The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, which earned more than $65M this weekend, just slightly edged out critical darling Brokeback Mountain for the top spot of this week's chart. The cowboy love story averaged a very impressive $109,485 per theater, the all-time highest average for a live action film.

Using box office ticket sales data, Metacritic scores and user votes from IMDB, I've created a formula that combines popular demand with opinion ratings. The result is a chart that includes quality films (which can only rank highly if they do well in theaters) and seat-fillers (which can only stick around on the chart if they get good reviews).

In other words, these are the films that in the past week have succeeded in enjoying the most positive attention from both critics and audiences.

Average Sales per Theater (10 Points): This number is taken by simply dividing the Average Sales per Theater figure by 1000. Films that exceed an average of $10,000 are assigned the maximum 10 points. Also, films that do not earn more than $1,000 per theater do not qualify for the buzz chart.

Metacritic Score (10 Points): The film's Metacritic score divided by 10.

IMDb Score (10 Points): The film's IMDb score.

Box Office Rank (6 Points): The #1 ranked movie in total box office sales receives 6 points. #2 gets 5.9 points. #3 get 5.8. The pattern continues all the way to #60, which receives 0.1 points.

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