<em>I, Tonya</em> Is Too Glib for Its Own Good
Margot Robbie stars as the controversial ice skater in Craig Gillespie’s biopic, which doesn’t try hard enough to understand its fascinating subject.
“I was loved for a minute, then I was hated, then I was just a punchline,” Tonya Harding (Margot Robbie) tells the camera in , summing up the life cycle of a scandalous public figure with pithy efficiency. She was once a competitive ice skater with serious promise, becoming the first American woman to land the notoriously hard triple axel jump in competition. She was a misfit in a cloistered world, performing routines to songs like ZZ Top’s “Sleeping Bag” and the theme rather than placid classical music. orchestrated in part by Harding’s ex-husband Jeff Gillooly.
