The film Contagion is a 2011 medical thriller directed by Steven Soderbergh. The film depicts the spread of a deadly virus through global travel and human contact, and the efforts of medical professionals to contain it. The virus in the film is based on real life viruses such as SARS and Ebola.
The film stars Matt Damon, Marion Cotillard, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet, Bryan Cranston, Laurence Fishburne and Jennifer Ehle. It was released in theaters on September 9th, 2011.
Contagion received generally positive reviews from critics. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 85%, based on 247 reviews with an average rating of 7.3 out of 10. The site's consensus reads: Tense, tightly wound, and terrifyingly believable, Contagion tracks the rapid progress of a lethal airborne virus that threatens to decimate the world's population.
On Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film has a score of 73% based on 42 reviews with an average rating of 6.8 out of 10.