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Robbie Collin


Robbie Collin is a British film critic.

Collin was educated at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, where he studied aesthetics and the philosophy of film. He edited the university's student newspaper, The Saint.

Collin is the chief film critic at The Daily Telegraph. From 2007 to 2009 he wrote a weekly film column for the News of the World until the newspaper's closure in July 2011. The same year he was shortlisted for Critic of the Year at the British Press Awards. He appeared on the Channel 4 Vue Film Show, presented by Edith Bowman, and contributes to the BBC Radio 2 Arts Show with Claudia Winkleman. In August 2013 he guest presented BBC Radio 4's Film programme. In August 2014, February 2015, July–August 2015, February 2016 and in April 2016 he guest presented Kermode and Mayo's Film Review, also with Edith Bowman.

As a child Collin played the bassoon, as second bassoonist.


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