the critical reception for "miss machine" was relatively favorable, with allmusic going so far as to say, "there's nothing more to say — the next true image of rock & roll has crawled out of the swamps of jersey." despite being positive in their review, pitchfork noticed "though miss machine displays dep in top musical form, the band seems to have lost its confidence and direction." "rolling stone", however, was negative, noticing "unless you're trying to drive a third world dictator out of his barricaded palace, you'll be hard pressed to listen to "miss machine" in its entirety." "miss machine" has earned a metascore of 80 on review aggregate site metacritic indicating favorable reviews.