Good Girl Gone Bad Kelefa Sanneh of "The New York Times" wrote that the album "sounds as if it were scientifically engineered to deliver hits". Peter Robinson of "The Observer" commended her collaborators for "masking her own shortcomings" and commented that, "While Rihanna lacks her peers' charisma, she's a great vessel for exhilarating mainstream pop." Pitchfork Media's Tom Breihan found the album varied and satisfying. Neil Drumming of "Entertainment Weekly" felt that, although it "goes bad when Rihanna tries her hand at treacly ballads and glum sentiment", at times "Good Girl Gone Bad" is a "thrilling throwback to more than a decade ago, when
Good Girl Gone Bad: The Remixes a reworked version of the bonus disc from the European deluxe edition of "Good Girl Gone Bad". However, "Good Girl Gone Bad: The Remixes" excludes the remixes of the "A Girl like Me" single "SOS" and the "Good Girl Gone Bad" bonus tracks "Cry" and "Haunted", in favor of remixes of the new "Reloaded" tracks "Disturbia" and "Take a Bow". Additionally, a Lindberg Palace remix of "Umbrella" was added. While the original album's bonus disc includes the full-length remixes, "Good Girl Gone Bad: The Remixes" includes only radio edits, which cut the original versions by three to four minutes. Critical