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According to Metacritic, the album received generally favorable reviews, scoring 66 out of 100 based on 15 reviews. Jim DeRogatis of the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' called ''Machina'' "an exceedingly impressive and hard-driving record"<ref name="derogatis">{{cite news |url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4537673.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180522111741/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4537673.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 22, 2018 |title=Smashing Pumpkins Reclaiming Rock Glory |work=[[w:Chicago Sun-Times|Chicago Sun-Times]] |date=February 29, 2000 |accessdate=October 17, 2016 |last=DeRogatis |first=Jim |authorlink=w:Jim DeRogatis |url-access=subscription}}</ref> and contended that it was the band's "masterpiece."<ref>[[w:Jim DeRogatis|DeRogatis, Jim]]. "Pumpkins Return in Force." ''[[w:Chicago Sun-Times|Chicago Sun-Times]]''. December 20, 1999.</ref> "''Machina'' finds the quartet back at their grunge-rocking best…" wrote Clark Collis in ''The Daily Telegraph''. "[Corgan] seems re-energised as a writer and singer with the likes of 'Stand Inside Your Love' and 'Try Try Try' standing among their best work to date, while the lyrical refrain of the epic 'Glass and the Ghost Children' should please all those who like their rock music to be mean, moody and not a little psychotic."<ref>''[[w:The Daily Telegraph|The Daily Telegraph]]'', February 26, 2000</ref>

*"Speed Kills" is not the ''[[Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music]]'' version, but the version that appears on the "[[Stand Inside Your Love]]" single truncated by two minutes with a fadeout. The last four tracks are re-sequenced. One [[Machina/The Machines of God (premaster)|early release of the album often referred to as the "premaster"]] has an extended version of "The Sacred and Profane" with two bars of electronic drum beat at the beginning of the song, electric guitar instead of acoustic in "Age of Innocence", "The Crying Tree of Mercury" titled "The Mercury Tree", and a different, more lo-fi mix overall.<ref>{{cite web |title=spfreaks.com/item/machina-the-machines-of-god-171/ |url=http://spfreaks.com/item/machina-the-machines-of-god-171/ |website=SPfreaks |accessdate=3 February 2019}}</ref>