“Candy Jar” (** out of four) was a saccharine comedy-drama about two dueling high-school debate champs (Jacob Latimore and Sami Gayle) who are at odds at almost everything in life but attempt to forge ahead to get into the college of their dreams as they transition onto the next stage of their lives. If they’re so good at debating, they probably could have worked on improving the script. Pleasant but pointless and utterly predictable. John Hughes did these high-school movies to perfection three decades ago anyway.