“Nicole” (*1/2 out of four) was a preposterous black comedy about a first-date between two people (Tre Lockhart and Tamika Shannon) which soon goes askew as both have to scramble to find out the other’s intentions and what they are really up to which leads to complications involving murder. Writer/director James Schroeder works in a cinema-verite style that recalls Spike Lee’s “She’s Gotta Have It” and tries to make poignant observations about first dates and unscrupulous personalities but it all adds up to………nothing, since neither character is particularly interesting or entertaining and thus neither is the movie.

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