Rialto — Local services in Nice

Fair enough, this cinema hasn't changed much over the last 30 years - and the facilities would deserve a serious refurbishment. But this is the best theatre in Nice (alongside the also not very modern Mercury on Place Garibaldi) to catch the best arthouse & independent movies. This is the place where I discovered the movies of the Coen brothers, Theo Angelopoulos, Wim Wenders, Claire Denis and many more when I was a teenager. This is a place where they will show any movie regardless of the number of people sitting in the screening. So for that, Rialto deserves 5 stars ! And as a bonus, you are 500m away from the glamorous Promenade des Anglais and the Negresco Hotel....

This is pretty poor in terms of service. Even though you can now buy a ticket online, there’s little point. You still need to get your digital ticket scanned - which means you need to line up in the ticket queue - at which point you get given a paper ticket. Very silly and bureaucratic. In addition there’s no allocated seating. We also found you get routinely ordered about in a wholly unfriendly manner....

The place to be if it's raining in Nice. Or if you need a break from the sun. Walking distance to the train station, the beach and the Negresco bar. They play arthouse and American/German/other foreign films. It's low key and not fancy, like it's from the 1980s. And none of the bs that comes with commercial, overpriced theaters. People wait in line to buy tix at the start of the show, and the seats are...