I, Tonya
With wit, frankness and in your face, fuck-you-if-you-don’t-like-it, style, “I, Tonya” soars like one of Harding’s signature triple axels. Margot Robbie slides into this role so deeply you can somehow forget the stunning beauty she is and concentrate on the amazing actor she has become. This isn’t to dismiss her work in Wolf of Wall Street, Focus or Suicide Squad, but none of those roles gave her the opportunity or space to show the tremendous depth in character she does in this film. Right out of the gate, the film tells you it’s irony free, and based on wildly contradictory and yet totally true interviews. This brings up a great theme that plays throughout and is very timely for a subject that happened over 20 years ago: What is a fact? And how does media portrayal of a thing (and the amount of it) change that fact? Since this story broke in the early 1990’s, right as the 24 hour news cycle was ramping up and the tabloids...