I, Tonya (2017)

“As with many of my most anticipated films of the year, 'I, Tonya' had a promising trailer that made me want to see it and an interesting cast, the accolades (wins and nominations) and generally positive word of mouth were just as encouraging. Not to mention that it was based on a fascinating true-life person, Tonya Harding, with an equally fascinating and infamous story.

'I, Tonya' was entertaining and well done with a lot of great qualities, but somehow it felt uneven to me and like something was missing. Can totally see what people see in it, due to absolutely agreeing with what has been singled out as especially good, but it could have done more with such a great subject to work from and does fall short of being one of my favourites of the year.

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"Ice Skating"

A good movie

“Since I kept hearing some pretty good things about this flick, I was really eager to check it out. Well, as expected, I turned out to be one of the weirdest sport biopics I have ever seen. However, even though I was fully aware of this story back in the 90’s, I was surprised that the makers actually took Tonya Harding’s side. Indeed, the theory developed here was that she wasn’t involved at all with the assault against Nancy Kerrigan which makes it retrospectively rather cruel that she was completely banned afterwards from ice skating.  Eventually, Harding was a pretty good skater, maybe not the best ever, but, above all, she had the bad luck that she had been surrounded her whole life with some either viciously mean and/or incredibly stupid people. And, yet, beyond this messed up d” read more