1 Eight Below Average Sales per Theater: $6,584 Metacritic Score: 66 IMDb Average: 7.2 Box Office Rank: #1 Weeks in Release: 1 | Last Week's Rank: -- BUZZ SCORE: 26.38 | Official Site

2 Neil Young: Heart of Gold Average Sales per Theater: $5,655 Metacritic Score: 84 IMDb Average: 7.9 Box Office Rank: #41 Weeks in Release: 2 | Last Week's Rank: 1 BUZZ SCORE: 23.96 | Official Site

3 Curious George Average Sales per Theater: $4,575 Metacritic Score: 63 IMDb Average: 7.2 Box Office Rank: #4 Weeks in Release: 2 | Last Week's Rank: 2 BUZZ SCORE: 23.78 | Official Site

4 Brokeback Mountain Average Sales per Theater: $1,994 Metacritic Score: 87 IMDb Average: 8.0 Box Office Rank: #11 Weeks in Release: 11 | Last Week's Rank: 3 BUZZ SCORE: 23.69 | Official Site

5 Capote Average Sales per Theater: $2,051 Metacritic Score: 88 IMDb Average: 8.1 Box Office Rank: #18 Weeks in Release: 21 | Last Week's Rank: 6 BUZZ SCORE: 23.25 | Official Site

6 Night Watch (Nochnoi Dozor) Average Sales per Theater: $28,995 Metacritic Score: 53 IMDb Average: 6.3 Box Office Rank: #51 Weeks in Release: 1 | Last Week's Rank: -- BUZZ SCORE: 22.60 | Official Site

7 Good Night, and Good Luck. Average Sales per Theater: $2,347 Metacritic Score: 80 IMDb Average: 8.0 Box Office Rank: #20 Weeks in Release: 12 | Last Week's Rank: 11 BUZZ SCORE: 22.44 | Official Site

8 The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada Average Sales per Theater: $4,665 Metacritic Score: 78 IMDb Average: 7.8 Box Office Rank: #40 Weeks in Release: 7 | Last Week's Rank: 8 BUZZ SCORE: 22.37 | Official Site

9 Match Point Average Sales per Theater: $2,503 Metacritic Score: 72 IMDb Average: 8.0 Box Office Rank: #15 Weeks in Release: 8 | Last Week's Rank: 7 BUZZ SCORE: 22.30 | Official Site

10 Transamerica Average Sales per Theater: $3,831 Metacritic Score: 66 IMDb Average: 7.9 Box Office Rank: #24 Weeks in Release: 12 | Last Week's Rank: 10 BUZZ SCORE: 22.03 | Official Site

11 Cache (Hidden) Average Sales per Theater: $3,112 Metacritic Score: 83 IMDb Average: 7.6 Box Office Rank: #31 Weeks in Release: 9 | Last Week's Rank: 12 BUZZ SCORE: 22.01 | Official Site

12 Tristram Shandy A Cock and Bull Story Average Sales per Theater: $4,842 Metacritic Score: 80 IMDb Average: 7.3 Box Office Rank: #43 Weeks in Release: 4 | Last Week's Rank: 4 BUZZ SCORE: 21.94 | 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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