1 Brokeback Mountain Average Sales per Theater: $6,213 Metacritic Score: 87 IMDb Average: 8.0 Box Office Rank: #5 Weeks in Release: 7 | Last Week's Rank: 1 BUZZ SCORE: 28.51 | Official Site

2 Cache (Hidden) Average Sales per Theater: $8,065 Metacritic Score: 87 IMDb Average: 7.6 Box Office Rank: #33 Weeks in Release: 5 | Last Week's Rank: 2 BUZZ SCORE: 27.17 | Official Site

3 Match Point Average Sales per Theater: $6,656 Metacritic Score: 72 IMDb Average: 8.0 Box Office Rank: #15 Weeks in Release: 4 | Last Week's Rank: 3 BUZZ SCORE: 26.46 | Official Site

4 Transamerica Average Sales per Theater: $8,331 Metacritic Score: 67 IMDb Average: 7.8 Box Office Rank: #30 Weeks in Release: 8 | Last Week's Rank: 4 BUZZ SCORE: 25.93 | Official Site

5 Underworld: Evolution Average Sales per Theater: $8,314 Metacritic Score: 38 IMDb Average: 7.4 Box Office Rank: #1 Weeks in Release: 1 | Last Week's Rank: -- BUZZ SCORE: 25.57 | Official Site

6 Why We Fight Average Sales per Theater: $8,928 Metacritic Score: 64 IMDb Average: 8.0 Box Office Rank: #47 Weeks in Release: 1 | Last Week's Rank: -- BUZZ SCORE: 24.73 | Official Site

7 The New World Average Sales per Theater: $4,968 Metacritic Score: 70 IMDb Average: 7.7 Box Office Rank: #11 Weeks in Release: 5 | Last Week's Rank: -- BUZZ SCORE: 24.67 | Official Site

8 Mrs. Henderson Presents Average Sales per Theater: $6,748 Metacritic Score: 71 IMDb Average: 7.0 Box Office Rank: #29 Weeks in Release: 7 | Last Week's Rank: 8 BUZZ SCORE: 24.05 | Official Site

9 Capote Average Sales per Theater: $2,493 Metacritic Score: 88 IMDb Average: 8.2 Box Office Rank: #23 Weeks in Release: 17 | Last Week's Rank: 12 BUZZ SCORE: 23.29 | Official Site

10 The Matador Average Sales per Theater: $6,209 Metacritic Score: 64 IMDb Average: 7.3 Box Office Rank: #28 Weeks in Release: 4 | Last Week's Rank: 5 BUZZ SCORE: 23.21 | Official Site

11 King Kong Average Sales per Theater: $1,914 Metacritic Score: 81 IMDb Average: 7.8 Box Office Rank: #10 Weeks in Release: 6 | Last Week's Rank: 10 BUZZ SCORE: 22.91 | Official Site

12 Walk the Line Average Sales per Theater: $2,725 Metacritic Score: 72 IMDb Average: 8.0 Box Office Rank: #13 Weeks in Release: 10 | Last Week's Rank: -- BUZZ SCORE: 22.73 | Official Site

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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