Robert Paul "Robin" Wood (23 February 1931 – 18 December 2009) was an English film critic and educator who lived in Canada for much of his life.

He wrote books on the works of Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, Satyajit Ray, Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Arthur Penn.

Wood was a longtime member—and co-founder, along with other colleagues at Toronto's York University—of the editorial collective which publishes CineACTION!, a film theory magazine.

According to Contemporary Authors he attended Jesus College, Cambridge, where he was influenced by F. R. Leavis and A. P. Rossiter, and graduated in 1953 with a BA in English and a diploma in education.

After a year in Lille, France, teaching English, Wood returned to schools in England, and again in Sweden, where he met Aline Macdonald,[3] whom he married on 17 May 1960.

Wood began to contribute to the film journal Movie in 1962, primarily on the strength of an essay he wrote for Cahiers du cinéma on Hitchcock's Psycho.

It was Wood's initial rejection by the British journal Sight & Sound[4] and recognition by Cahiers du cinéma, through the publication of his Hitchcock essay, which launched his career as a film critic.

[8] This prompted him to study and gradually embrace notions of the Nouvelle Vague directors: from Claude Chabrol to Jean-Luc Godard.

Wood's early books are still prized by film students for their close readings in the auteur theory tradition and their elegant prose style.

They were "Either I Can't Sleep or I Don't Want to Sleep Alone, Sansho the Bailiff, Tokyo Story, either Ruggles of Red Gap or Make Way for Tomorrow, Code Inconnu, The Reckless Moment or Letter From an Unknown Woman, Angel Face, The Seven Samurai and either Le Crime de Monsieur Lange or La regle de jeu."