Awash in neon colors and a thumping score, How to Have Sex hyper-fixates on the experience of 3 young women during a party-heavy vacation, exploring the disconnect between their expectations and their reality. A weird comparison that I found myself drawing was to Spring Breakers (both in terms of style and in terms of themes and plot), and like that movie, you kind of know where this is headed. I did find the first half of the movie to be compelling as it sets the stage, but I found the second half to not land with the impact required to make this movie stand out from the slew of similar movies. Certainly, the events have a truth to them, and there sort of mundane nature being the real culprit is a message I do appreciate. However, I felt like the movie didn't do a strong enough job to make this distinction on its own, instead just sort of depicting events as they played out without emphasizing and accentuating the more universal message at its heart. In that regard, I think Spring Breakers is an interesting comparison because whereas that movie struggles with subtlety and hits you over the head so many times with its point, this one leaves too much lifting to the viewer. There is a time and place for that, but I feel like with the type of stylized colors and directing, as well as the topic, this was not the right movie to take that approach with. Mia McKenna Bruce brings an earnestness and humanity to the role that definitely helped elevate it though.