You and the Academy Awards Missed One of the Best Performances of Last Year — Now You Can Fix That on Netflix
Mia McKenna-Bruce gives a phenomenal performance in the film How to Have Sex, which went widely unrecognized during awards season.
One of the many new films that were added to Netflix at the beginning of the month is Molly Manning Walker’s directorial debut, How to Have Sex. Don’t be fooled by the title or premise—a trio of 16-year-old British girls on a wild holiday in Greece—How to Have Sex is not a raunchy sex comedy but a meditative coming-of-age film about peer pressure and sexual assault. It also features one of the most underrated lead performances of 2024 from Mia McKenna-Bruceas Tara, our bubbly protagonist who sets out to lose her virginity while on holiday, only to end up feeling socially excluded and traumatized by the end of the trip. Her performance—and the film at large—is a masterclass in showing, not telling, and How to Have Sex is a visceral slice-of-life film that treats its delicate subject matter with the empathy and sensitivity it deserves.
