Tonya and Jeff have very different views on the way that the whole thing went down, and it leads to a creative bit of storytelling anchored by a brilliant performance.
There aren’t many actresses who could have brought to the film what Margot Robbie does, and it explains why her name is getting mentioned a lot as award season continues to heat up.
Telling the story of the conspiracy that led to the attack on Nancy Kerrigan before the 1994 Winter Olympics, I, Tonya starts with a disclaimer saying that it is, “Based on irony free, wildly contradictory, totally true interviews with Tonya Harding and Jeff Gillooly,” and it certainly lives up to that.