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‘Contagion,’ the Movie That Predicted Our Pandemic, Is Really About the Virus of Things Falling Apart (Column)

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Home Movies: Steven Soderbergh's 2011 biomedical disaster film is an unsettlingly effective thriller that looks even more timely than it did six weeks ago.

By Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic In “Contagion,” the 2011 Steven Soderbergh drama that predicted, in eyebrow-raising, scientifically rigorous, this-could-be-happening-to-you detail, exactly what’s happening to us right now (incompetent trash-talking authoritarian president? — that plot point must have been discarded for being something you could only see in the movies), Matt Damon, as run-of-the-mill Minnesota guy Mitch Emhoff, sits in a hospital talking to Kate Winslet, who plays the epidemic intelligence officer investigating the spread of a mysterious virus.

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