Tonya (2017)

Tonya: Directed by Craig Gillespie. With Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan, Allison Janney, Julianne Nicholson. Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the activity is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.

“I was going to make a list of people who made extraordinary things during the same period that Tonya Harding monopolized the headlines but then I thought it was a pointless exercise. Charles Manson will always be more famous, much more than Sharon Tate. Thatu0026#39;s the world we live in or maybe it always was. The sadness verging on horror of of the Tonya Harding story will win, fascination wise, than any kind of kindness from anyone anywhere. Now that out of my system let me say that I Tonya is an entertaining harrowing tale directed by Craig Gillespie and his extraordinary cinematographer Nicholas Karakatsanis with, clearly, Martin Scorsese in their minds and hearts. Margot Robbie is terrific and Sebastian Stan as the husband from hell, superb but itu0026#39;s Allison Janney that creates a character that is impossible to take and irresistible at the same time. She is spectacular. So, thatu0026#39;s more than enough to recommend I Tonya but if the Tabloid Times is something you subscribe I will highly recommend Gus Van Santu0026#39;s To Die For and Michael Ritchieu0026#39;s made for television The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom.”