How to Have Sex

Reviews

• "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."
  - The Playlist
• "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."
  - Rolling Stone
• "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."
  - The Guardian
• "Manning Walker’s wily command of tone and glistening sweat and DayGlo visuals do make you pine to be young again for the first half hour or so of this."
  - The Telegraph
• "This is an unsparing look at the realities of mixing puberty, alcohol, and hazy ideas about sexual consent."
  - London Evening Standard
• "As enthralling as it is important, HOW TO HAVE SEX neatly depicts the joy and pain of teenage girlhood."
  - Sophie Butcher
• "HOW TO HAVE SEX is a wild and fun ride, whose sober moments are as important as they are uncomfortable."
  - Anna Smith
• "This is fresh, passionate, and remarkably assured filmmaking, made with ample energy and even more exhilarating clarity of vision."
  - RogerEbert.com