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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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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) Mar 10, 2024
3.5/5
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. Go to Full Review
Geordie Gray The Australian Feb 24, 2024
3.5/5
This film marks Molly Manning Walker as a director to watch. Go to Full Review
Randy Myers San Jose Mercury News Feb 15, 2024
3.5/4
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. Go to Full Review
Maxance Vincent Movies We Texted About Jan 6, 2026
4.5/5
[Mia McKenna Bruce's] performance slowly devastates you until the final scene at an airport, which releases the tension meticulously built in an incredibly cathartic way. Go to Full Review
Rohan Naahar The Indian Express Jul 28, 2025
A disturbing companion piece to Netflix's Adolescence; director Molly Manning Walker's coming-of-age film will be particularly satisfying to anybody who felt that the show was neglectful of the victim's experience. Go to Full Review
Samantha Schuster Cinéfilo Serial Jul 25, 2025
4/5
With a great performance by McKenna-Bruce and an interesting perspective from its director, as well as the atmosphere she manages to create, How to Have Sex is an intense, surprising, and necessary coming-of-age story. [Full Review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
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Ghederick Eshmont Feb 4, 2024 The film’s brilliance is evident in its nuance & what’s left unsaid by Tara. Molly Manning-Walker’s debut is exceptional. See more Paul N @Makhnoboy 5 days ago I'm only five minutes into this, and already the three bints are doing my head in! Southern middle-class accents, acting like complete d...heads! Gordon Bennett, what a nightmare to be stuck there with these whoppers! I bet the lads that come into it are equally annoying, and complete beauts! I hitch hiked to Athens, and got the ferry to Crete, early 80's, and thank God, it wasn't full of deadbeats like these! And don't get me started on the two plebs leading the pool 'games'! The British abroad-sad! Well, having seen it til the finish, my expectations were fulfilled, other than the Badger character being a decent egg, where the hell did the 1,000 extras come into it? and to say, thank God I never went on anything like that when I was that age! Being a Punk was MUCH more fun! See more Nic B @babyboy1 Aug 9, 2026 It's ok to watch I guess See more Vitor A @RT78519417 Jul 21, 2026 Poor movie. It's depressing and shows how the 21st-century generation is messed up. But the movie doesn't show anything clear, just a confusing story with not-so-great action. See more Sally T @RT35755808 May 25, 2026 Takes me back to being that age. Superb acting. A serious subject matter but it’s not preachy. Just kinda portrays it for what it is. See more Fleur V @Fleurtjuh02 May 1, 2026 It was unfortunatly so real and even though i felt uncomfortable i also Felt like it is something we all go through as teens and feels so retable. The acting was phenomanal. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

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
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)
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