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Movie Review: "I, Tonya" Is Funny and Insightful, With Great Performances

I, Tonya Starring Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan, Alison Janney, Paul walter Hauser, Bobby Cannavale     Written by Steven Rogers Directed Craig Gillespie Reviewed by Paul & Patrick Gibbs The saga of Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan was perhaps the strangest, least expected sports story of the 1990s. Of all the sports to descend into that kind of violence, women's figure skating? Of course, it was actually Harding's ex-husband Jeff Gilooly and her ex-bodyguard who were responsible for the hit, but most people who remember these events tend to think of Harding as a whiny, white-trash villain. But the real story is more.complicated that than, and the real achievement of director Craig Gillespie's film is to make us empathize with Tonya and think of her as a person in a way we didn't before. Margot Robbie, who most movie goers know as the only part of "Suicide Squad" that they liked, plays Tonya Harding beautifully, in a funny an...