What stories captured readers' interest the most in 2025? Festival favourites, true crime, and music docs hold strong among the top reads of the year.

Revisiting the Year in Docs -

"Where this film is subversive is that trauma is not the centre point. The centrepiece of this work is joy and our right to joy." How MODERN WHORE changes the narrative about sex work and how we tell stories from the workforce.

⏰️⏰️⏰️ One day left to apply for the @Telefilm_Canada Emerging Critic Award! https://t.co/MpGUYA2ogZ

In CLAIRTONE, Ron Mann revisits a Canadian company that made a splash when speakers were big and people's homes were big enough to house them.

"Documentary film presupposes an audi­ence willing to engage with it in good faith, to open itself to seeing different and uncomfortable realities, to critically evaluate the way the filmmakers choose to present those realities"

Can you tell us the difference between a good "movie" and a bad "film"? Do you dream in 70mm? Is popcorn your favourite vegetable? Just a few days left to apply to the Telefilm Canada Emerging Critic Award! 👇

"If sex workers are telling their stories in a documentary, it’s usually quite dour and grey and sad, and this film is the opposite of that." Andrea Werhun and Nicole Bazuin talk MODERN WHORE and reframing the narrative around sex work. https://t.co/vDBp1kgcis

"The broad strokes of their life were already almost too good to be true for a narrative feature." Craig Brewer and Kate Hudson tell us about taking #SongSungBlue from documentary to movie musical. https://t.co/8Wfe24zYWZ

In this week's review round-up, Marty Supreme, Song Sung Blue, No Other Choice, and The Voice of Hind Rajab all land on Santa's 'nice' list, while critics are mixed whether Anaconda delivers a lump of coal for Christmas.

THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB deftly weaves real audio files with note-perfect performances that recreate the unbearable phone calls.

Kate Hudson on Adapting Music Doc 'Song Sung Blue' -

"Isn’t that the hope of life, that it’s a feel good tragedy?" Kate Hudson and Craig Brewer tell us about #SongSungBlue's journey from documentary to movie musical https://t.co/NVHhwly3RH

BREAKING: Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See Video (no paywall): https://t.co/olxQ4mRuZJ

Inside CECOT (the 60 Minutes segment that was spiked yesterday) is available on Global TV app. It must have been delivered before the story was blocked. Watching it now.

Documentaries reflect stories from Israel and Palestine with varying struggles to be seen and heard--and to satisfy everyone amid the culture wars. Daniel Glassman surveys the field:

CBS News pulls 60 Minutes report on El Salvador prison to which Trump administration deported hundreds of immigrants

This week in movies! On IS THIS THING ON? 🎤 "A solidly smart and sly adult drama" - Rachel West "a terrific, serious performance by Will Arnett" - @jimslotek "a raw, incandescent performance" - Brian D. Johnson https://t.co/xjfyym3YJC

"She also told me that I was going to eat some kind of crazy hot sauce and s**t my pants. Like, some intense hot sauce and then s**t my pants." Seth and Pete Scriver tell us how a psychic shaped the path of ENDLESS COOKIE.

Seth Scriver and Pete Scriver burn through a pile of public money with their hilarious animated documentary about storytelling, Endless Cookie.