Margot Robbie wins gold in ‘I, Tonya’
Actress shines in darkly comic biopic of figure skater Tonya Harding
With punk-rock flair and no fourletter word left behind, the exuberantly rebellious I, Tonya takes a club to the biopic genre.
In director Craig Gillespie’s darkly hilarious tragicomedy ( out of four; rated R; in theaters Friday in New York and L.A., expands through January), Margot Robbie gloriously portrays every aspect of disgraced skating wunderkind Tonya Harding — good, bad and ugly — in the years before and after “The Incident.” (You know the one, where rival Nancy Kerrigan’s knee was bashed at a practice session by a mystery assailant two days before the Olympic trials.) The sneakily insightful movie also explores the beginnings of tabloid culture, tackles domestic abuse head-on and challenges the very definition of truth.
As much as I, Tonya is Robbie’s