‘No Good Men’ Review: Unexpected Berlinale Opener Finds Love in a Hopeless Patriarchy

The opening credits of “No Good Men” play out over a profuse montage of cactus flowers blooming in rapid time-lapse abundance, their pastel petals billowing brightly over the plant’s thorny armor — set to an earwormy Pashtun-pop banger by Pakistani singer Nazia Iqbal. Rife with symbolic implications of beauty enduring against arid odds, the sequence […]