This Movie Changed Me

Groundhog Day is a classic movie for two groups of people: Bill Murray fans and anyone who was alive in the ’90s. But wr... Read more

“The Wizard of Oz” is one of the most watched films of all time. When a tornado whisks Dorothy and her dog Toto from the... Read more

“A League of Their Own” is a fictionalized account of the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, for... Read more

Season 2 of This Movie Changed Me is a wrap! Before we go away to work on our next season, we’d love to hear from you. W... Read more

“The Wiz” is a reimagining of the classic “Wizard of Oz” tale, complete with an all-black, all-star cast and Quincy Jone... Read more

“Toy Story” helped Monsignor Charles Pope through a time of personal crisis. From ego to failure to self-acceptance, Cha... Read more

The Namesake, an adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel, is a moving exploration of the immigrant experience told through t... Read more

What movie helps you reckon with the loss of a loved one? Jamie Berube turned to “Interstellar” to cope with the death o... Read more

Contact takes the sometimes opposing forces of science and religion and puts them in conversation. The movie is based on... Read more

Looking for some chill in your life? For the 20th anniversary of The Big Lebowski, Scott Oliver talks about how the movi... Read more

You don’t see many Asian leads in Western cinema, that’s why The Joy Luck Club’s all-Asian cast was so radical. Its port... Read more

What does it mean to be good? What does it mean if we aren’t good? Whose fault is it? These are just some of the questio... Read more

For Samantha Powell, the pressure to be the perfect adult felt like a stranglehold. But this all changed with “Bridget J... Read more

The Exorcist is known for being absolutely terrifying, but film critic Mark Kermode argues that it’s also a masterpiece.... Read more

Spike Lee’s “Malcolm X” paints a nuanced portrait of a historical icon — as a human being who was constantly searching f... Read more

From bodybuilding to thriving in the male-dominated Goldman Sachs, Jacki Zehner turned to Wonder Woman to become the lea... Read more

Dear Sugars’ Steve Almond talks about the liberating vulnerability of this Robert Redford classic. It taught him to embr... Read more

“Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!” So declares the title character in the 1958 comedy Aun... Read more

Movie characters can rewrite the possibilities for our lives. That’s what Uma Thurman’s role as The Bride did for Lauren... Read more

Naomi Shihab Nye uncovers poetry in the everyday, an art practiced in Richard Linklater’s coming-of-age classic, “Boyhoo... Read more