The thriller has acquired the realism of a documentary.

| Aug 27, 2024

A corker of dread... Accepting of the possibility, plausibility and even certainty of massive social tremors and upheavals. Flu, weather, warming, water: [it] could have taken flight from any of these... delicate filaments of global commerce,

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jul 4, 2024

With an incredibly talented cast, Burns' words are in capable hands.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 26, 2024

Contagion might be a more important film in 2024 but it really speaks to the importance of being prepared when mitigating a pandemic outbreak.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 26, 2024

Contagion remains Soderbergh’s most impactful cautionary tale for the human species and perhaps his most relevant yet engrossing picture to date.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 8, 2023

It develops the threat, raises the stakes, and lets a remarkable cast tell the story.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 19, 2022

Scott Z. Burns’ tight screenplay smartly eschews the trappings of a typical Hollywood thriller in favor of methodical, realistic scenes and science-based dialogue.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 5, 2022

Saw this like 3 days after the lockdown started for COVID-19. It's scary how accurate it was. Soderbergh does a good job building the different sides of the problem and how a pandemic affects everything. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 23, 2022

Contagion is a hypochondriac's nightmare. Contagion is also one of the better disaster films in recent memory.

| Feb 11, 2022

Contagion is a vital, scientifically sure-footed, hot- button thriller that will have you avoiding public surfaces and reaching for antibacterial hand gel for months.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 17, 2021

Contagion pretty much gave me a full-on panic attack

| Jul 6, 2021

Contagion is stacked to the rafters with recognizable faces. Any film that can kill off Gwyneth Paltrow inside 15 minutes is not particularly short on star power.

| Mar 19, 2021

It's uncannily detailed, realistic, and factual.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 30, 2020

Matt Damon gives one of his most satisfying performances yet.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 5, 2020

A cold, almost clinical presentation of a virus that quickly mushrooms out of control, to the point that when you hear someone cough three rows behind you, you'll want to bolt from the theater.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 11, 2020

Looking at it from a dramatic point of view, 'Contagion' works. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 24, 2020

A high-class ensemble piece, with director Steven Soderbergh reimagining the disaster genre of the 1970s.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 12, 2020

Soderbergh must kick himself for not anticipating the fetish for toilet paper, and the political briefings which have greatly exposed a couple of demagogues in the process.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 12, 2020

An entertaining if occasionally unwieldy cross between a PSA and one of those all-star idiocies from the 1970s - those disaster flicks involving hijacked planes, hurtling meteors or towering infernos.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 2, 2020

...a razor-sharp treatise on our reaction to said pandemic, the paranoia that spreads faster than the disease, engulfing the population.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Mar 18, 2020