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How to Have Sex

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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. From TMDB

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  • loz @turquoisehexagon.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 2, 2025

    #lastfourwatched #films2025 #letterboxdfriday #films @letterboxd.social The Doom Generation (1995), Little Women (2019), How to Have Sex (2023), The House with Laughing Windows (1976) ❤️🎥📽️🎬

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  • 🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 2, 2024

    HOW TO HAVE SEX writer-director Molly Manning Walker on how AMERICAN HONEY inspired the visual language of her film. Read more: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/interview-...

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  • Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 9, 2023

    75) How To Have Sex. A film that is almost too good to watch. A painfully accurate depiction of mid-teen friendships, sex and consent. Very relieved I didn’t see it when I was expecting a coming-of-age comedy.

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  • Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 15, 2024

    I saw a movie trailer in the theaters today for a movie called How To Have Sex and the movie was in British English and it had subtitles. Do British movie theaters show American movies with subtitles?

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  • JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 15, 2023

    Saw Molly Manning Walker’s film HOW TO HAVE SEX yesterday - really excellent on the minefields of peer pressure and consent. Can’t help but think all teenagers should see this, possibly in schools to prompt discussions…

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  • kevin tudor. @kevbones.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 10, 2024

    Fav female filmmaker working today: Julia Ducournau or Coralie Fargeat Female filmmaker more people should know: Sarah Jacobson, Cecelia Condit Fav woman directed 2024 movie: The Substance but also The First Omen and How To Have Sex

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  • Mathis Raabe @mathisraabe.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 5, 2023

    Die lange überfällige Dekonstruktion von Sexkomödien wie American Pie, Partykino à la Project X und dem ganzen anderen Quatsch, mit dem wir so aufgewachsen sind: Der tolle HOW TO HAVE SEX kommt diese Woche ins Kino. Meine Filmkritik für @zeitonline.bsky.social:

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  • Steve Fanagan @stevefanagan.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 2, 2023

    Really delighted to be BIFA nominated for our sound work on How To Have Sex. The film received a massive 13 nominations. It’s released in Irish and UK cinemas tomorrow

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  • Every Film Now @everyfilmnow.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 30, 2026

    Molly Manning Walker (‘HOW TO HAVE SEX’) is developing new film ‘NOT ANOTHER FUCKING WEDDING’ at A24. Plot details are under wraps. #A24 #NotAnotherFuckingWedding

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  • John HELL Roberson @jlroberson.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 22, 2024

    CONTEXT IS WORSE. "[he] then turned his attention to McKenna-Bruce, who had just won the Rising Star Award for her turn as a sexual assault victim in “How To Have Sex,” to congratulate her. “I haven’t yet watched your film,” he told her. “I think it looked like you had a lot of fun.”

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  • 🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 3, 2023

    Thirdly, Molly Manning Walker's tense, finely grained HOW TO HAVE SEX [Click] 3/3 www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...

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  • David J @damjef.bsky.socialBluesky · May 7, 2026

    How To Have Sex on Film 4 at 9 tonight. Can’t recommend it enough. Superb performance from Mia McKenna-Bruce.

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  • Nathan @nwylabour.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 6, 2025

    And the same organisations are often paying for the edgy stuff with the returns from the more populist stuff. E.g. the BBC does The Salt Path but also does Femme. Film 4 does Wicked Little Letters but also does How to Have Sex.

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  • National Film & Television School @nftsfilmtv.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 29, 2025

    Filmmaker/NFTS grad Molly Manning Walker will lead the Un Certain Regard jury at Cannes Film Festival 2025!🔥A full circle moment for Molly whose debut feature How To Have Sex premiered & won the top prize in the same strand in 2023. @screendaily.com.web.brid.gy🎥➡️ www.screendaily.com/news/molly-m...

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  • Stewart @stewartmack.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 14, 2024

    First film of 2024 that I liked #filmsky was ‘How to Have Sex’, watched on 1st Jan. [Favourite of whole year (so far) was The Substance]

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  • David Kuhne @davidkuhne.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 15, 2024

    Watched How to Have Sex (2023) directed by Molly Manning Walker, about three British girls on holiday at one of those depressing resorts young British people like to go to. It ultimately becomes a film about sexual assault. The point of comparison is Spring Breakers but How to Have Sex is better.

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  • Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 19, 2024

    Bound to do well at Sundance 2024 is HOW TO HAVE SEX, a British seaside movie which is very well made but I'm too old to find anything in it new

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  • happy halLoween @sackclothqueen.butchsky.socialBluesky · Aug 8, 2026

    seeing a movie called How To Have Sex. got a ticket almost entirely bc of the title. i have one personality trait

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  • Pet's Villain Era 👿 @indigofatale.meBluesky · Sep 5, 2024

    Prime just suggested a movie called How to Have Sex to me and I'm questioning my whole life 😭

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  • MevsMatze (Shattered version 💔 ) @mevsmatze.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 13, 2024

    My ★★★ review of How to Have Sex on Letterboxd boxd.it/75S3zn #FilmSky 📽️

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  • Torontoplex @torontoplex.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 9, 2024

    New - Wenders' PERFECT DAYS, Cannes/TIFF-selected HOW TO HAVE SEX, Sundance-selected SOMETIMES I THINK ABOUT DYING, Diablo Cody-penned LISA FRANKENSTEIN, Andy Lau in THE MOVIE EMPEROR, returning DUNE and TURNING RED, more! Now playing in TO: letterboxd.com/torontoplex/... #toOpening

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  • Alan Zilberman @alanzilberman.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 7, 2024

    HOW TO HAVE SEX opens in DC theaters this Friday. I hope you go see it: there's a lot more going on than the title/premise would have you believe, and it ends with such a good needle drop I wonder whether writer/director Molly Manning Walker built the movie around it.

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  • Alan Zilberman @alanzilberman.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 6, 2024

    I'll have more later this week, but How to Have Sex (the film) is quite an achievement, a critique of youth culture that never loses sight of its inherent joy. It also ends with a needle drop so perfect, a natural fit for the material, that I wonder whether the director built her movie around it.

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  • Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 3, 2023

    All Of Us Strangers has won seven awards and Mia McKenna-Bruce has won Best Lead Performance for How To Have Sex at the BIFAs www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/news/2023-12...

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  • Steve @stevegeiler.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 3, 2023

    Ab morgen große Kinowoche. 4 mal beim #14Films Festival mit 4 Daughters, La Chimera, Evil Does Not Exists & All of Us Strangers unterwegs. Und dazu noch mindestens Renaissance: A Film by Beyonce, Maestro & How to Have Sex. Vielleicht Wonka, obwohl ich die Trailer ja hasse.

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  • Lee Meade @leemeade.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 5, 2023

    How to Have Sex review – two stars are born with this searing study of consent www.theguardian.com/film/2023/no...

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  • Jack Belloli @frgiacbelloli.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 4, 2023

    HOW TO HAVE SEX is very good: it feels odd to describe a film so understated in a lot of its narrative gestures as 'immersive', but that's how it landed with me (a guy who's never been to Malia and never will). And I'm glad I got out of clericals before going...

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  • LeesahSea @leesahsea.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 8, 2023

    Day 2 of #TIFF23: I guess we can call this my youth & coming-of-age film day.  Also, female filmmaker Friday! We Grown Now (Dir. Minhal Baig) How to Have Sex (Dir. Molly Manning Walker) 📽️

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  • Lisa Gurrola @lgur73.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 8, 2025

    Final film, on Mubi and Netflix, How To Have Sex. #filmsky #letterboxd www.imdb.com/title/tt2289...

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  • E. Sousa @lazyboomer.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 5, 2025

    #NowWatching How to Have Sex (2023).

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  • logantsmith.bsky.social @logantsmith.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 28, 2025

    You know, for a British film with the semi-instructional title ‘How to Have Sex (2023)’, said film is MUCH more heartwarming and poignant than it has any right to be (still not for everyone though…).

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  • The Movie Badger @themoviebadger.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 25, 2025

    Watched the brilliant HOW TO HAVE SEX the other night and was introduced to Mia McKenna-Bruce Both supremely talented and insanely pretty. Cracking film. Well worth seeking out. #HowToHaveSex #FilmSky #Movies 📽 🎬

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  • Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 27, 2025

    Movie Diary - Anora, Blitz, The Electric State, Kraven The Hunter, Personality Crisis: One Night Only, How To Have Sex, The Killer's Game, etc. narrowcast.blogspot.com/2025/03/movi...

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  • Alise Chaffins @alisechaffins.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 24, 2025

    How to Have Sex is a movie that feels like it should be required for anyone wanting to understand consent. Just so, so good.

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  • Ewa Ferdynus @ewaferdynus.comBluesky · Jan 22, 2025

    please please please everyone hype up this movie the way everyone was hyping up SCRAPPER or HOW TO HAVE SEX or HOARD or AFTERSUN or any other British indie the most recent years!!!!!

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  • Stu Can Play At That Game @btnstu.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 3, 2025

    I love Everything Is Illuminated, which is the only Elijah Wood film I can sit through. Was also thinking about a Holiday and How To Have Sex as a double bill. 🤔

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  • Alice @boiledeggly.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 18, 2024

    Thank you! I’ve seen How To Have Sex - what a film! So much to check out I can’t wait!

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  • Justly Underrated @justlyunderrated.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 1, 2024

    Top 5 Films of 2024 (so far): 1. Challengers 2. How to Have Sex 3. Dune: Part Two 4. Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person 5. Hit Man (Mars Express would have made the list, but the power went out with about five minutes left in the movie and I still haven’t seen the ending.) #filmsky

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  • Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 22, 2024

    A few very interesting movie experiences these last few weeks! HOW TO HAVE SEX: Rattling, blazing, one of the most confident directorial debuts I’ve ever seen. A story about social terror and consent that goes to some very upsetting places without sensationalizing or losing room for kindness.

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  • Nancy @bristlesage.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 10, 2024

    I saw How to Have Sex yesterday, it was, I think, stellar. It hit me right across my chest; it took the wind from me. The kind of movie where you want to cry, but you can't because the feelings it touches are actually too big for tears.

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  • Paolotime 🍉 @paolokagaoan.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 9, 2024

    A British girl joins her fellow country folk down to the Mediterranean and learns some lessons in How to Have Sex, a film about post colonial blues. In theatres today. Brought to us by @mongrelmedia and @mubi. More at @intheseats. intheseats.ca/what-do-you-...

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  • Alan Zilberman @alanzilberman.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 9, 2024

    How to Have Sex opens in DC theaters today. It might be the first great film of the year, an observant critique of youth culture that never forgets how joy, regret, exuberance, and trauma must coexist within us all.

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  • Cub Avenger 🏳️‍🌈 @cubavenger.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 29, 2023

    My Top 20 Movies Of 2023 Yet to see: Zone Of Interest, Monster, Fallen Leaves, Perfect Days, How To Have Sex, Origin, The Iron Claw, The Color Purple, Taste Of Things, Menus-Plaisirs, Ferrari, Boys In The Boat, La Chimera, The Peasants, The Teacher's Lounge, Society Of The Snow, The Promised Land

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  • Darren Leathley @dmleathley.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 27, 2023

    Mubi email to say HOW TO HAVE SEX is streaming from Friday. A scorching film, highly recommended.

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  • meg walters @megwalters.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 24, 2023

    Quite a big piece from me in Stylist today: during LFF, I spoke to Molly Manning Walker and Mia McKenna-Bruce about their film How To Have Sex.

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  • Phil Edwards @PhilEdwardsMastodon · Oct 10, 2023

    Molly Manning Walker’s How To Have Sex gets a trailer. Watch it here https://www.liveforfilm.com/2023/10/10/molly-manning-walkers-how-to-have-sex-gets-a-trailer/ #MollyManningWalker #HowToHaveSex @MUBI

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  • Steve Fanagan @stevefanagan.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 8, 2023

    Really brilliant Interview with the mighty Molly Manning Walker about her debut feature film How To Have Sex, which plays at #lff next week and is released in Irish & Uk cinemas on 3rd November: www.theguardian.com/film/2023/oc...

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  • Films for Nowt' @filmsfornowt.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 2, 2026

    Today's great film for nowt' is How to Have Sex, currently streaming on @channel4tv.bsky.social. An energetic and relatable drama about teenage students experiencing the highs and lows of an 18-30 holiday on the Med. Let me know what you think of this one in the comments! @channel4.bsky.social

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  • MubiMap @mubimap.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 30, 2026

    🆕 New on MUBI How to Have Sex (2023) · dir. Molly Manning Walker ★ 7.2/10 on MUBI Now streaming in 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 https://mubimap.com/film/how-to-have-sex/ #MUBI #arthouse #cinema

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  • Roz Kidd @rozkidd.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 24, 2026

    How To Have Sex was a rather perfect 1 hr 31 mins but being a film fan, I love long films and am happy to watch a film over 2 and a half hours or more if it's good - Amores Perez being a fave.

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  • Michael Hogan @michaelhogan100.bsky.socialBluesky · May 20, 2026

    Film-wise: at 7.40,Tomorrow Never Dies on ITV4. At 9, Green Book on BBC3 or Renfield on Film4. At 10.15, Murder By Decree on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social. At 10.40, Saving Private Ryan on BBC1. At 10.55, How To Have Sex on Film4. At 11.20, The Turning on BBC2. At 12.45, The Lobster on Film4 #telly

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  • Heather Wallace @burntcopper.eurosky.socialBluesky · May 12, 2026

    Fuck. How To Have Sex : all-too-real film about sexual assault, people not talking about it, not knowing how to talk about it, his mates making excuses for him, the drunken revellry, and toxic friendship. 4 stars and make your teenagers watch it.

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  • Michael Hogan @michaelhogan100.bsky.socialBluesky · May 7, 2026

    Film-wise: at 8pm, Eddie The Eagle on Sky One. At 9pm, How to Have Sex on Film4, Terminator 2 on ITV4 or Scarface on Legend. At 10.45, Batman Begins on ITV1. At 10.50, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol on Film4. At 11.15, Silence of the Lambs on BBC4. At 11.20pm, Breathless on Talking Pics #telly

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  • Variety [Unofficial] @[email protected]Mastodon · Mar 26, 2026

    ‘How to Have Sex’ Director Molly Manning Walker on Series ‘Major Players,’ Football Obsession and Chloe Kelly: ‘She’d Done Things for Women in Sport Everywhere’ https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://variety.com/2026/tv/global/molly-manning-walker-major-players-chloe-kelly-soccer-1236700620/

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  • reggaejunkiejew0 @reggaejunkiejew0.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 1, 2026

    I just watched her movie "How To Have Sex". If Mia McKenna-Bruce isn't a household name/big star within 5 years we have failed. Unless of course she wants to stay as a niche character actor and not get hugely famous. She's got IT.

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  • sonja @[email protected]Mastodon · Jan 4, 2026

    how to have sex (2023) - manning walker i really am starting to dislike this type of movie ---- "rite of passage" or "coming of age" drama about girls/women because like 99% of the time its about sex and the fact that dudes are oblivious as are your friends. had this very odd urge to watch fish tank (2009) because yes theres sex in it but its not the main point. #howtohavesex #mollymanningwalker #cinemastodon

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  • Movies • TV Shows & Physical Bluray Media 🍿 @movies-on-sale.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 10, 2025

    The (movie) How to Have Sex (iTunes)(AU) AU$7.99 (Drama) (iMDB) 7.1 Cast: Mia McKenna-Bruce, Shaun Thomas, Lara Peake, Enva Lewis, Samuel Bottomley, Laura Ambler

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  • Movies • TV Shows & Physical Bluray Media 🍿 @movies-on-sale.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 11, 2025

    The (movie) How To Have Sex (4K) is available today on (iTunes)(Germany) for €3.99 Cast: Mia McKenna-Bruce, Shaun Thomas, Lara Peake, Enva Lewis, Samuel Bottomley, Laura Ambler Genre: (Drama) Trailer & Reviews : www.rottentomatoes.com/m/how_to_hav...

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  • Jan-Willem Bult® @janwillembult.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 25, 2025

    My #tweetreview of How To Have Sex (2023) now on Letterboxd. boxd.it/aqt93b #cinema #film #movies

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  • Sylvie @slywit.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 1, 2025

    Looks like with my last days of Mubi I unintentionally created a "Pretty Happy With the Age I Am Thank You Very Much" double feature. Tonight's #DirectedByWomen selection was HOW TO HAVE SEX (2024) by Molly Manning Walker. #52FilmsByWomen #21 #Filmsky 📽️

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