Craig Gillespie’s ambitious direction and self-awareness made I, Tonya a refreshing and hysterical look at Tonya Harding’s life and what drove the events of her downfall.

| Aug 7, 2024

Brimming with depravity and teaming with talent, "I, Tonya" may be the brashest film you will see seen this year and, quite frankly, one of the downright best as well.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 4, 2023

…isn’t a feminist polemic, but a serious-minded black-comedy…

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 1, 2023

I, Tonya is wildly entertaining and well made.

| Apr 26, 2023

Both Robbie and Allison Janney are excellent, and the film’s frisky style is pretty much Scorsese on ice.

| Jan 23, 2023

Margot Robbie and director Craig Gillespie do the impossible: they turn Tonya Harding, 1994's most vilified American, into a sympathetic figure. My #2 movie of 2017.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 4, 2022

The result is one part Tonya's personal truth of the events, one part reveling in junk food news, and another part media critique. Still, the joys of this film should not be understated.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 16, 2022

I, Tonya is a wickedly funny and equally depressing piece of cinema that has a lot more on its mind than most fluffier biopics.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 29, 2021

I, Tonya adopts the right tone to relate the factual tale of the whacked kneecap, spinning it in a darkly comedic direction.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 31, 2021

There's great heart in Margot Robbie taking on a national joke, a secondhand villain, and turning her into a quiet hero.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 29, 2021

I, Tonya is far from your typical biopic, and it's all the better for it. Buoyed by sharp, fun storytelling and Oscar-worthy performances, it's exactly the type of movie this story deserved.

| May 26, 2021

Margot Robbie finally gets a role to match her talent.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 29, 2021

It's messy, but this is a messy story about a woman who paid a heavy price for daring to be herself. Not conforming cost her everything but you get a sense, by the end of the film, it's a price she was willing to pay.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 3, 2021

Comedy-drama documentary about the rise and fall of Tonya Harding, the American figure-skater. It sounds like a simple sports biopic, and honestly, the story is much more complex.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 28, 2021

Humor is abundant in many of the establishing scenes, though they weave between sequences of emotional poignancy.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 5, 2020

Robbie, Janney, Stan, and Gillespie really nailed this tale by going for broke and giving the bittersweet true story a fair dose of punk rock rebellion.

| Nov 10, 2020

Regardless of your take on the morality of its conceit, the film is so undeniably compelling and well-crafted that it remains a must-see experience. It's not a typical Oscar contender; it's a gritty underdog that might just stick the landing.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 29, 2020

A frustrating and often troubling tonal nightmare that skates on thin ice for so long that it's always going to slip up.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 14, 2020

Under all the format gimmicks and stylization, the meta-references and winks at the audience, there is a real heart to this story. When Tonya falls apart at the 1994 Olympics, or breaks down after having skating taken away, her pain is palpable.

| Jul 27, 2020

I, Tonya is strictly an actor's film in theory, but those onscreen manage to breathe life into what can be a knowingly and unapologetically messy ride.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 23, 2020