Complex sentence: Critics hailed "Spiral" as "nothing short of brilliant" and "the closest thing you'll get to Hitchcock in this day and age" and the film took home the prestigious Gold Vision Award at the 2008 Santa Barbara Film Festival.
Split into simpler sentences: Critics hailed "Spiral" as "nothing short of brilliant" and "the closest thing you'll get to Hitchcock in this day and age". Film won Gold Vision Award at the 2008 Santa Barbara Film Festival.