How to Have Sex

Released Feb 2

1h 38m

Drama

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97%

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143 Reviews

65%

Audience Score

100+ Ratings

Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday -- drinking, clubbing and hooking up, in what should be the best summer of their lives.

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Critics Consensus

A powerful debut for Molly Manning Walker, How to Have Sex authentically captures female adolescence and friendship with sobering effervescence.

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Wenlei Ma

The Nightly (AU)

It’s naturalistic, thoughtful, and deeply, deeply uncomfortable because there are familiar behaviours that almost anyone will remember from their own adolescence — and wish they could forget.

Rated: 3.5/5

Mar 10, 2024

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Geordie Gray

The Australian

This film marks Molly Manning Walker as a director to watch.

Rated: 3.5/5

Feb 24, 2024

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Randy Myers

San Jose Mercury News

Walker realizes this is risky material but she avoids sensationalism in charting Tara’s treacherous journey, one that requires lead McKenna-Bryce to crawl into tough emotional spaces.

Rated: 3.5/4

Feb 15, 2024

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Abe Friedtanzer

Cinema Daily US

This film and its cast compellingly convey the importance of telling the truth and of looking at events through the proper lens, one that assigns blame to those who do wrong and not those without the ability to stop them.

Rated: B+

Jul 27, 2024

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Brittany Patrice Witherspoon

Pop Culture Reviews

Director Walker does something really special within How to Have Sex. She demonstrates the importance of true friendship and allyship which all simply boils down to ‘women looking out for women.’

Rated: 4/5

Jul 26, 2024

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Carla Monfort

Espinof

Provides a fresh and at the same time forceful perspective on a subject that we have already seen many times in the cinema. [Full review in Spanish]

Jul 22, 2024

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Ghederick Eshmont

The film’s brilliance is evident in its nuance & what’s left unsaid by Tara. Molly Manning-Walker’s debut is exceptional.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/04/24

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d m

#Recommended 6/10

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

07/20/24

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David F

Kind of a British Spring Breakers.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

06/17/24

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Gareth D

Powerful acting and deeply uncomfortable, especially for someone with a young daughter. I imagine these kind of scenarios are terrifiningly common.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

05/19/24

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chris h

Stellar acting, beautiful and uncomfortable coming-of-age film focused on hedonistic culture and what really matters. I cried after the film, because I felt sad for humans in general. It captures the pain and beauty of the human experience.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

05/15/24

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Audience Member

You got to love a movie that is so real. Currently at 65% so I can only assume the other 35% have never experienced or could relate to this type of holiday partying atmosphere. We all wished it went another 20 minutes and ended how we wanted, but this movie was so real!

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

05/05/24

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Synopsis

Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday -- drinking, clubbing and hooking up, in what should be the best summer of their lives.

Director: Molly Manning Walker
Producer: Konstantinos Kontovrakis, Emily Leo, Ivana Mackinnon
Screenwriter: Molly Manning Walker, Molly Manning Walker
Distributor: MUBI
Production Co: British Film Institute, Heretic, Film4
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 2, 2024, Limited
Box Office (Gross USA): $177.4K
Runtime: 1h 38m

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