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How to Have Sex

Summary 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. As they dance their way across the sun-drenched streets of Malia, they find themselves navigating the complexities of sex, consent and self-discovery.

Directed By: Molly Manning Walker

Written By: Molly Manning Walker

In Theaters Now
  • 2024
  • Imagine Film Distribution (IFD)
  • 1 h 31 m
  • 2024
  • Imagine Film Distribution (IFD)
  • 1 h 31 m

How to Have Sex

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 37 Critic Reviews
79
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 16 User Ratings
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Summary 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. As they dance their way across the sun-drenched streets of Malia, they find themselves navigating the complexities of sex, consent and self-discovery.

Directed By: Molly Manning Walker

Written By: Molly Manning Walker

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 37 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 37 Critic Reviews
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95% Positive
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5% Mixed
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0% Negative
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100
Feb 7, 2024
The title is titillating enough to grab young ears. Yet the story at its core — about three college-age British women looking for thrills on holiday in Crete but instead finding some hard truths — would surely prompt discussion about consent, optics, and forethought that should be happening everywhere all the time and not just among women.
By Kim Hughes FULL REVIEW
90
Feb 2, 2024
How to Have Sex is a fearless, uncomfortable, and mesmerizing watch from start to finish.
By Emma Kiely FULL REVIEW

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83
May 22, 2023
By bringing to the screen a conversation painfully reserved to private spaces built upon the frail structures of shame and guilt without ever losing the type of loving lightness one can only get through unwavering support, Molly Manning-Walker confidently steps out of the gate right foot forward.
By Rafaela Sales Ross FULL REVIEW
80
May 23, 2023
The film, with its pulsating score and club-scape visuals, is only interested in showing its audience the truth about situations like the one that unfolds throughout the story — and Molly Manning Walker's first film feels like an expert, surefire debut as a result of the skill with which she (and the brilliant collaborators she surrounds herself with on and off-camera) elicits every subtle gut punch the movie has to offer. 
By Lex Briscuso FULL REVIEW
80
May 22, 2023
This is an interestingly unsentimental film, without the coming-of-age cliches, and one from which the three leads emerge stronger and happier than before.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
70
Jan 30, 2024
That Walker knows how to handle such things without being sensationalistic, as well as tenderly sketching the tension and sensitivity that characterize female friendships at that age, is what keeps the film from being a boozy, sunburnt tragedy.
By David Fear FULL REVIEW
50
Feb 1, 2024
Manning Walker sets the scene and stakes well enough, though after the millionth drink and shriek, whatever contact high you have is obliterated by a contact hangover. The largest problem, though, is that Manning Walker seems weirdly insensitive toward Tara, who endures a trauma that’s meant to say something about something — sex, consent, friendship — but mostly just gives the story some queasy heft.
By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Mubi, Film4, British Film Institute (BFI), The National Lottery, MK2, Wild Swim, Heretic, MK2 Films, Head Gear Films, Metrol Technology, Umedia, Wild Swim Films
Release Date Feb 2, 2024
Duration 1 h 31 m
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Awards

British Independent Film Awards
• 3 Wins & 13 Nominations
London Critics Circle Film Awards
• 2 Wins & 4 Nominations
Stockholm Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations

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