1 Brokeback Mountain Average Sales per Theater: $18,020 Metacritic Score: 87 IMDb Average: 7.9 Box Office Rank: #13 Weeks in Release: 4 | Last Week's Rank: 2 BUZZ SCORE: 31.40 | Official Site

2 King Kong Average Sales per Theater: $8,775 Metacritic Score: 81 IMDb Average: 7.9 Box Office Rank: #2 Weeks in Release: 3 | Last Week's Rank: 1 BUZZ SCORE: 30.68 | Official Site

3 Munich Average Sales per Theater: $12,099 Metacritic Score: 74 IMDb Average: 7.7 Box Office Rank: #10 Weeks in Release: 2 | Last Week's Rank: 3 BUZZ SCORE: 30.20 | Official Site

4 The Chronicles of Narnia The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe Average Sales per Theater: $8,749 Metacritic Score: 76 IMDb Average: 7.4 Box Office Rank: #1 Weeks in Release: 4 | Last Week's Rank: 4 BUZZ SCORE: 29.75 | Official Site

5 Match Point Average Sales per Theater: $66,179 Metacritic Score: 72 IMDb Average: 8.0 Box Office Rank: #21 Weeks in Release: 1 | Last Week's Rank: -- BUZZ SCORE: 29.20 | Official Site

6 Cache (Hidden) Average Sales per Theater: $19,840 Metacritic Score: 85 IMDb Average: 7.5 Box Office Rank: #35 Weeks in Release: 2 | Last Week's Rank: 5 BUZZ SCORE: 28.60 | Official Site

7 The New World Average Sales per Theater: $26,464 Metacritic Score: 70 IMDb Average: 7.8 Box Office Rank: #37 Weeks in Release: 2 | Last Week's Rank: 6 BUZZ SCORE: 27.20 | Official Site

8 Mrs. Henderson Presents Average Sales per Theater: $9,781 Metacritic Score: 71 IMDb Average: 7.0 Box Office Rank: #29 Weeks in Release: 4 | Last Week's Rank: -- BUZZ SCORE: 27.08 | Official Site

9 Transamerica Average Sales per Theater: $12,651 Metacritic Score: 67 IMDb Average: 7.9 Box Office Rank: #39 Weeks in Release: 5 | Last Week's Rank: 7 BUZZ SCORE: 26.80 | Official Site

10 Casanova Average Sales per Theater: $14,910 Metacritic Score: 57 IMDb Average: 6.8 Box Office Rank: #20 Weeks in Release: 2 | Last Week's Rank: -- BUZZ SCORE: 26.60 | Official Site

11 The Matador Average Sales per Theater: $23,078 Metacritic Score: 66 IMDb Average: 7.3 Box Office Rank: #36 Weeks in Release: 1 | Last Week's Rank: -- BUZZ SCORE: 26.40 | Official Site

12 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Average Sales per Theater: $3,296 Metacritic Score: 81 IMDb Average: 7.8 Box Office Rank: #9 Weeks in Release: 7 | Last Week's Rank: 10 BUZZ SCORE: 24.40 | Official Site

Woody Allen's Match Point, the year's final major awards contender, debuted this weekend. Reviews for the film have been mostly favorable, but its #5 debut doesn't bode well for its chances at scoring an Academy Awards Best Picture nomination.

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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