Overrated

Rating: 4/10 (26 February 2018)

The accolades for the acting in this movie are mystifying. If you weren't born at the time of the '94 Olympics, you might be convinced that Margot Robbie makes a good Tonya Harding. Sometimes an actor can pull off playing a real person despite not having any physical similarities. Margot Robbie is not one of those actors. She bears no physical resemblance to Harding, nor does she convince through her acting.
Allison Janney's role as Harding's mother, LaVona Golden, is a one-note comic book villain. She plays it well, there's just not much heavy lifting going on there, acting-wise. (For a screen mother with some emotional layers, see Laurie Metcalf in Lady Bird.)
While it's not Tyler Perry-bad, tonally it's broad comedy one minute, jarring scenes of domestic abuse the next.
I was not left cheering Tonya Harding; mostly I was left with a sense of ambivalence.