How to Have Sex transcends any other in the coming-of-age genre and becomes that of a horror movie.

| Mar 20, 2025

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

The film is worth seeing for its insight into the party scene and for an interesting angle on giving consent.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 9, 2025

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

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.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 27, 2024

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.’

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 26, 2024

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

A clever and fundamentally empathetic story of people getting their first taste of freedom and becoming frightened by what that taste suggests about the future.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 19, 2024

A vivid, vital but sorrowful heart-breaker, with an electricity as if told through the fingertips.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Jul 4, 2024

In 'How To Have Sex'... Manning Walker has written a young person’s story that is honest and relatable in various ways.

| Jun 4, 2024

I loved Walker’s handling of tone and realism while also showing a deft confidence in style.

| Original Score: B+ | May 25, 2024

The beauty of Molly Manning Walker’s storytelling brings the fierce resolve of Mia McKenna-Bruce’s performance. For the friends that said the wrong thing at the wrong time, this film says the right thing at the right time.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 23, 2024

With powerful storytelling, How to Have Sex confronts the complexities of trauma. Its essential discomfort will ignite important dialogue.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 23, 2024

An effective movie about the intertwining of closeness and discomfort.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 15, 2024

A bold and terrifically immersive piece about the binges, the hook-ups and non-stop partying that sweeps schoolies up on their summer break, and leaves little space for reflection

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 21, 2024

Manning Walker's debut film connects both with the long tradition of British cinema being attentive to the reality of the working class and with the 'coming of age' focused on sexual initiation rituals. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 19, 2024

Molly Manning Walker makes her directorial debut with the impetus and clarity of the best debuts possible. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 15, 2024

Like a hypersexualized and broken Disney fantasy, Tara hides her pain so as not to seem childish and corny, to keep alive the lie of believing herself to be strong... [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 15, 2024

How to have sex is a coming-of-age of rape culture... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 14, 2024

Walker draws on her own experience and that of other women to transfer to the screen a hyperrealistic portrait of youth who do not have the tools or knowledge to truly understand consent. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 12, 2024