Simply the best movie in years.

Rating: 10/10 (16 March 2018)

An amazing sugar-rush of a movie. I felt like I had been picked up and whirled around, then placed back on the ground outside the cinema, laughing. I can pay no higher compliment than that I, Tonya reminded me in a BIG way of a Coen Brothers movie. The dark humour, the cringing embarrassment, the empathy, the tension. It's not a biopic, and those above complaining about inaccuracies or lack of realism should look elsewhere. Without being a facsimile of Tonya's life, it still manages to tell her story - that's what movies should do.
I have never willingly watched ice-skating in my life, but the scenes on the ice here are tremendous. The music punches you in the stomach, and the action is exhilarating. The CGI isn't great but hey, it's the movies, you suspend your disbelief.
Robbie delivers a stunning performance, her screen husband is hapless, pathetic and hilarious, but special mention must go to the rotund henchman (the real character died at 40 in 2007, apparently). His is a comic performance par excellence. Alison Janney deserves all her accolades as the psychotic mother, but to be fair, it's a bit of a pantomime villain role, so maybe a little easier to get her teeth into. Robbie simply steals the show.
It saddens me that worthy but dull, box-ticking entries like Get Out and Moonlight garner all the accolades they do whilst a rollicking entertainment like I, Tonya is, to some extent, disregarded. See it, without delay!