Review of I, Tonya (2017) by Hendrick M — 17 Mar 2018

I remember being mesmerised by Tonya Harding when she broke onto the skating scene around the early 1990s. She came across as amazingly strong physically (the first US woman to pull off the triple axle) yet emotionally vulnerable which made her easy to empathise with.

Yes, I'm talking about ladies figure skating. Margot Robbie utterly inhabits the role and is simply stunning in her very physical portrail of Tonya. in many ways it resembles Whiplash, and is at times more harrowing .

I give it 5 stars because for me I was totally satisfied, but I think the context of following her career means maybe it worked better for me than for those who didn't grow up with her. The best film I've seen so far this year *****.