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Superhero movies are no longer a surefire win at the box office, and so-called mid-tier films costing about $50 million to $100 million have become more scarce.

Buying a home has often been seen as a surefire path to wealth, with some going to the extreme and saying “Renting is throwing money away.”

“Citizen Nation” vibrates with the same earnest energy that made 2002’s spelling bee documentary “Spellbound” so memorable, although where that documentary uses its competitors’ stories to test whether hard work and self-assuredness are surefire keys to success, this series doesn’t bother with such fantasy.

But the mounting pressure of rising costs and no surefire hit left him stressed.

Gogol says there is only one surefire way to tell if your herb has properly dried.