I, Tonya (2017)
Directed by Craig Gillespie
Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the sport is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.
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The predictability doesn’t sink the film, but it keeps it from rising to the level of reinvention achieved by more daring sports dramas such as Foxcatcher or I, Tonya.
The filmmakers were clearly aiming for I, Tonya, which has weirder and crueler energy.
…turning in a performance that recalls Margot Robbie in I, Tonya in terms of portraying false bravado…
…in a move not unlike Margot Robbie in I, Tonya, or even Charlize Theron in Monster…
…there’s nothing Sweeney does here that tops Margot Robbie’s turn as the similarly cocksure sportswoman Tonya Harding in 2017’s I, Tonya.
(As Joyce Salters, Merritt Wever, who is beginning to look like the great Shirley Knight, is much more subtle than Allison Janney’s campy turn in I, Tonya; she has a gently spoken sweetness that makes her love feel all the more coldly withheld.)
He’s known for his films featuring antisocial characters or outcasts who live on the fringes of mainstream society, like Lars and the Real Girl, Cruella, and I, Tonya.
…director Craig Gillespie, whose films I, Tonya and Cruella celebrated complicated female characters…
Given Australian director Gillespie’s history with films about spirited, rule-breaking women, like I, Tonya and Cruella…
He’s directed films centered around memorable female performances, particularly from Margot Robbie in I, Tonya and Emma Stone in Cruella.
Mientras que la dirección de Craig Gillespie («I, Tonya» y «Cruella») produce casi lo contrario, limitando la acción y el ritmo de la aventura llevándola a dinámicas algo más rígidas…
He’s a guy who makes movies that are all better than you’d think they’d be – Cruella and I, Tonya and Lars and the Real Girl and even The Finest Hours, that boat-broke-in-half rescue movie was surprisingly really good.
Directed by Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl, Fright Night, I, Tonya), Cruella is pretty lengthy at 2 hours and 14 minutes, and the plot goes on to describe a secret from Cruella's past, her transformation from the good "Estella" to the Cruella de Vil we all know and loathe, and many little origin-style tidbits that lead right up to the beginning of 101 Dalmatians.
Supporting performances by Joel Fry and Paul Walter Houser (who gave a terrific performance for Gillespie in 2017’s I, Tonya ) as Jasper and Horace respectively, Cruella’s accomplices, and Mark Strong as Paul the Valet (in a role strongly reminiscent of Stanley Tucci’s role in 2006’s The Devil Wears Prada ) are excellent.
The new movie Cruella , directed by I, Tonya filmmaker Craig Gillespie and out this Friday in theaters and on Disney+, purports to explain how she became the “inhuman beast” we know from her theme song, and the results are mixed.
Director Craig Gillespie’s last film was I, Tonya , which proves to be an unlikely companion piece to Cruella , another tale of two women of different generations pitted against each another.
(Seriously, director Craig Gillespie, who previously maxed out his music budget to an embarrassing degree with 2017′s I, Tonya, soundtracks his action here with Supertramp, the Rolling Stones, Joe Tex, the Zombies and Nancy Sinatra … all within the first 30 minutes.
British writer-director Martin McDonagh has shown his flair for dark, quirky comedy with In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths, but here he takes it to a whole new level.
British writer-director Martin McDonagh has shown his flair for dark, quirky comedy with In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths, but here he takes it to a whole new level.