How to Have Sex

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.

This film marks Molly Manning Walker as a director to watch.

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.

If you have an idealized memory of your teenage years, see this movie to remember what it was actually like.

Registers the tensions, the betrayals and the pain of feeling violated on a granular level.

McKenna-Bruce can work wonders in terms of assured technique and complicated emotions and she’s magically right as Tara.

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

How to Have Sex is a coming-of-age movie without all the cliches of the subgenre, and its insights are stronger for it.

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

Walker reminds that, though we all reach adulthood at the same time in terms of pure numbers, our internal paces and definitions vary infinitely.