No matter if you think you know the story of Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan, though, you’ll still find plenty to draw out of I, Tonya, starting with the performances.
However, either Robbie learned how to perform all of Harding’s skating routines, or Gillespie solved how to fake them expertly, because the routines in I, Tonya are amazing.
She’s countered by Margot Robbie, who dons the wigs and fakes the accents but is never “not pretty enough” to truly wear the anti-establishment hurt and anger that came with being the ostracized Tonya Harding.
As mentioned, Allison Janney is ferocious, dirty and unpredictable as Tonya’s horrible mother — the prototypical Stage Mom who barks demeaning insults in between drags of her ever-present cigarette.