Critic Reviews
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Movieline
Contagion's restraint is marred by one element - Alan Krumwiede, the San Francisco-based activist blogger played by Jude Law, a conspiracy theorist who wields claims about uncovering the truth like a blunt instrument intended to menace.
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Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Here's a scare-the-crap-out-of-you medical thriller about a viral pandemic that will have the immediate post-screening effect of causing a handwashing stampede.
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
One aspect of the film is befuddling. Alan Krumwiede (Jude Law) is a popular blogger with conspiracy theories about the government's ties with drug companies. His concerns are ominous but unfocused. Does he think drug companies encourage viruses? The blogger subplot doesn't interact clearly with the main story lines and functions mostly as an alarming but vague distraction.
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
A film for anyone who enjoys an intelligent thriller, but for illness phobes this movie is a special pleasure in that it presses all the right fear buttons even as it validates a very particular vision of reality.
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Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
By the time this globe-hopping, movie-star-crammed disaster saga - directed with petrifying efficiency by Steven Soderbergh - comes full circle, you'll never want to touch a subway pole or elevator button or ATM again.
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Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
He's the anti-Michael Bay, the un-Roland Emmerich. No fake-documentary "realism" here; Soderbergh values the silence before the storm, or a hushed two-person encounter in which one or both parties are concealing something.
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Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
This may not fit any conventional definition of entertainment, but it certainly keeps your eyes on the screen.
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The Hollywood Reporter Todd McCarthy
The pressure cooker plot calls for intense performances all around but first among equals are Winslet and Ehle.
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
The film is most riveting in its early scenes, when Soderbergh's digital cameras locate germs everywhere - don't touch those peanuts!
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USA Today Claudia Puig
While potent and well-paced, Contagion doesn't come together as the fearsome bio-thriller it starts out to be. But it may make audiences twitchy about the guy coughing in the next row.
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New York Daily News Joe Neumaier
There's a sense of dread in Contagion, but it never spreads to us. When Day 1 is finally shown, it makes you want to eat better, which isn't the same as saying this is a great movie.
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