The movie Contagion opens with a montage that will provoke fear in anyone adhering to CDC social distancing guidelines: uncovered coughing, feverish-looking people crowded in subways and the sick ...

If the only “virus movies” you’ve watched so far while in quarantine are Outbreak and Contagion and you’re looking to keep your blood pressure elevated during the real-world pandemic, you’re in luck.

If the only “virus movies” you’ve watched so far while in quarantine are Outbreak and Contagion and you’re looking to keep your blood pressure elevated during the real-world pandemic, you’re in luck.

The calm is what’s so startling in “Contagion” — the cool precision with which Steven Soderbergh depicts a deadly virus that spreads throughout the world, quickly claiming millions of victims. There’s ...