1 Inside Man Average Sales per Theater: $10,274 Metacritic Score: 76 IMDb Average: 7.5 Box Office Rank: #1 Weeks in Release: 1 | Last Week's Rank: -- BUZZ SCORE: 31.10 | Official Site

2 Thank You for Smoking Average Sales per Theater: $18,590 Metacritic Score: 72 IMDb Average: 7.2 Box Office Rank: #15 Weeks in Release: 2 | Last Week's Rank: 2 BUZZ SCORE: 29.00 | Official Site

3 V for Vendetta Average Sales per Theater: $3,666 Metacritic Score: 62 IMDb Average: 8.1 Box Office Rank: #2 Weeks in Release: 2 | Last Week's Rank: 1 BUZZ SCORE: 23.87 | Official Site

4 L'Enfant (The Child) Average Sales per Theater: $6,362 Metacritic Score: 85 IMDb Average: 7.5 Box Office Rank: #55 Weeks in Release: 1 | Last Week's Rank: -- BUZZ SCORE: 22.96 | Official Site

5 Tsotsi Average Sales per Theater: $3,348 Metacritic Score: 70 IMDb Average: 7.5 Box Office Rank: #26 Weeks in Release: 5 | Last Week's Rank: 3 BUZZ SCORE: 21.35 | Official Site

6 Neil Young: Heart of Gold Average Sales per Theater: $1,629 Metacritic Score: 85 IMDb Average: 8.1 Box Office Rank: #39 Weeks in Release: 7 | Last Week's Rank: 39 BUZZ SCORE: 20.43 | Official Site

7 The Chronicles of Narnia The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe Average Sales per Theater: $1,200 Metacritic Score: 75 IMDb Average: 7.3 Box Office Rank: #18 Weeks in Release: 16 | Last Week's Rank: -- BUZZ SCORE: 20.30 | Official Site

8 Eight Below Average Sales per Theater: $1,293 Metacritic Score: 64 IMDb Average: 7.3 Box Office Rank: #9 Weeks in Release: 6 | Last Week's Rank: 10 BUZZ SCORE: 20.19 | Official Site

9 The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada Average Sales per Theater: $1,054 Metacritic Score: 77 IMDb Average: 7.9 Box Office Rank: #28 Weeks in Release: 15 | Last Week's Rank: 11 BUZZ SCORE: 19.95 | Official Site

10 The World's Fastest Indian Average Sales per Theater: $1,107 Metacritic Score: 68 IMDb Average: 8.1 Box Office Rank: #24 Weeks in Release: 16 | Last Week's Rank: -- BUZZ SCORE: 19.71 | Official Site

11 Failure to Launch Average Sales per Theater: $3,267 Metacritic Score: 48 IMDb Average: 5.6 Box Office Rank: #4 Weeks in Release: 3 | Last Week's Rank: 7 BUZZ SCORE: 19.37 | Official Site

12 16 Blocks Average Sales per Theater: $1,045 Metacritic Score: 64 IMDb Average: 6.8 Box Office Rank: #4 Weeks in Release: 4 | Last Week's Rank: 12 BUZZ SCORE: 19.35 | 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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