Robyn Karney is a British film writer and critic.
She used to be a critic for the Empire film magazine. Karney is the author of books on film including the comprehensive biennial Cinema Year by Year and Chronicle of the Cinema (1997) put out by DK Publishing, and biographies of Audrey Hepburn, Charlie Chaplin, and Burt Lancaster. With Ronald Bergan, she wrote the Foreign Film Guide (London: Bloomsbury, 1988, 1991).