I love coming here for a date night with my partner. It's much more classy than the standard cinemas - you can have wine in a real glass, the seats are plush and the cinemas are small and intimate. They also have a cool cinema that has glass walls and a rooftop cinema for summer nights.

A great place to see a movie - especially if you get one of the downstairs cinemas that are small and intimate, with lounge chairs! Also, the cafe is great for coffee and cake with friends or alone - the chocolate gluten free cake is amazing!

I've been going here since I was a child, back when there was just the one cinema. The transformation has been incredible. It's definitely my preferred cinema! Amazing building, great staff, good bar options. I don't really love the food, as it seems like they just reheat things made elsewhere, but it's not somewhere that I go to eat anyway.

I love coming here :) the seats are comfy, the staff are professional and friendly, and there aren't the masses of hogans and kids, like at village cinemas.
Nice to take your wine/coffee/food from the cafe in and enjoy a movie.

This theatre is a bit more "old school" than the other popular cinema's. The seats are verrrry comfy and you can take your food and drinks in the theatre with you - and I mean alcoholic drinks, yay! Haha. Nice to enjoy a wine.

The place is very neat and lovely looking, a nice place to dress up a little if you want :)

This is a lovely place to sit in North Hobart for a quiet catch up with friends. There is a good selection of generous cakes. Its light, spacious and pleasant.

Whilst I love and applaud the actual cinema and the gorgeous bookshop and really value the service this wonderful place offers I really think the café is not up to scratch at all! I have been for pre and post movie drinks, coffee and food during the day and at night and no matter how busy or slow they are the service is deadly, the coffee is awful and the food dry and unappetising which, given the great opportunity they have created is a real shame! Lift your game guys and take some pride! 20 mins. for lousy coffee/tea/chai is just not good enough and can you do something about those awful dry desserts you offer? In every other respect though....The State rocks!

What an amazing place this is and such an asset for Hobart. The cafe, book shop and cinema all combine to make it a great experience...my only complaint is that the cheap price Tuesday should run through January too.

I will never go to a large chain cinema again after finding the State Cinema. Housed in a beautiful heritage building with some new additions there is a beautiful ambience on entering the front doors. Prices are very reasonable but what I loved the most was the intimacy of the small cinemas which I'm guessing would hold around 100 people each. Although they have never been more than about 20% full on the occasions I have attended! The other attraction here is the large cafe which serves snacks and light meals at reasonable prices. I also love foreign films which are shown here on a regular basis although mainstream films are also shown. A lovely place for a date!

The State has expanded the cafe area out the back, incorporating the old building with a new extension. On Friday nights there is a musician playing (guitar), and it is a lovely place to meet friends and chat, whether or not you are going to a movie. Good hot chocolate, very tempting cakes!
The State now has a bookshop which is open late on Fridays (in the space where Restaurant 373 used to be) - worth a look for more unusual titles you won't see at other bookshops.
The expansion of the State over the past few years has been amazing! If you haven't been for a while, go and check it out.

Haven't been to The State in about 7 years, OH WOW! it is absolutely fantastic, 7 cinemas, including one on the roof. beautifully laid out, and the chairs are so comfy..... looking forward to my next visit already.

Approximate cost: $15

I hadn't been here since it was renovated (some years ago) until a few months ago - was amazed and very pleasantly surprised!
They now have a wonderful restaurant/cafe, which is licensed, you can have a meal before or after your movie, with a good range of seating - outdoors, upstairs, or in the foyer. Lovely food and wine, and you can take your drinks into the cinema with you - much better a good glass of wine than a bucket of popcorn!
They now have about six cinemas, and the ticket prices are slightly cheaper than Village.
Some of the new releases do show here - just saw "The King's Speech" on it's opening day on Boxing Day, same day it opened at Village - and this was a much more pleasant experience than going to a Village cinema!
Comfy seats, arranged so that you CAN see over the head of the person sitting in front of you! Cinemas are all fairly small, but this is fine, means they can fit more cinemas on the site so greater selection of movies.
Also sell gift tickets (which I used for Christmas presents) and you can buy discount tickets at selected places (ie, my union sells discount tickets).
I will be a much more frequent visitor in future.

A lovely licensed cafe/restaurant in the foyer of the State Cinema. A good range of light meals, we had the soup and then very scrummy dessert, along with a glass of wine, before our movie. They have a range of seating, some upstairs, and despite having to order over the counter combined with the box office, service was fast and hassle free. I'd eat here just for the food, whether I was going to a movie or not!

Approximate cost: $8

This cinema specialises in the unusual and cutting edge type of movies.You won't find the local overcommercialised Russel Crowe latest movie,but what you will expect to see is a varied range of overseas films before they hit the SBS circuit.The latest screening for example is the SCORSESE "Shine a Light"" advance screening about the Rolling Stones.

Approximate cost: $11.00