I, Tonya review – scattershot skating biopic offers flawed, foul-mouthed fun - News Summed Up

I, Tonya review – scattershot skating biopic offers flawed, foul-mouthed fun


At the beginning of I, Tonya, we’re informed that what we’re about to see is based on a set of “irony-free, wildly contradictory and totally true” interviews with disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding and ex-husband Jeff Gillooly. Harding here is an unlikely underdog trying to succeed in a world where she’s been repeatedly told that she’s not welcome. Professor Marston & the Wonder Women review – vanilla-flavoured origin story Read moreGiven the titular focus on Harding, there’s little characterization elsewhere. Unevenly told and patchily performed, there’s still a morbid curiosity that keeps I, Tonya at least diverting. It’s brash and shaggy and while Robbie might not quite stick the landing, Janney’s performance is gold.


Source: The Guardian September 09, 2017 18:56 UTC



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