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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) 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 Full Review Geordie Gray The Australian This film marks Molly Manning Walker as a director to watch. Rated: 3.5/5 Feb 24, 2024 Full Review 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 Full Review John Serba Decider How to Have Sex is a coming-of-age movie without all the cliches of the subgenre, and its insights are stronger for it. Mar 4, 2025 Full Review Jen Shieff New Zealand Herald The film is worth seeing for its insight into the party scene and for an interesting angle on giving consent. Rated: 3.5/5 Jan 9, 2025 Full Review David Bax Battleship Pretension Walker reminds that, though we all reach adulthood at the same time in terms of pure numbers, our internal paces and definitions vary infinitely. Jan 3, 2025 Full Review Read all reviews

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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 Full Review Franciscus M dont be put off by the title, a touching movie that grows on you Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/09/25 Full Review Gabriel N La peor pelicula que he visto en toda mi vida. Planos sin sentido, trama sin sentido, personajes vacios y actores que no dan la talla. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/15/25 Full Review Juan Jose L Es una película aburrida y muy lenta. No me gustó Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/12/25 Full Review EVAN M Al principio pensé que sería una película con más drama o que realmente mostraría un lado oscuro, pero mientras más avanzaba más aburrida se convertía, hay momentos rescatables pero en general peca de aburrida dependiendo de un título que genera morbo al espectador para que la vea Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/11/25 Full Review Christian P That's how British people have fun on holidays. Kinda sad. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 11/29/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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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
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)
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