Just got done viewing Captain Marvel. As someone who immerses myself in leftist content, I found the film fairly lacking considering the conversation around it. I might even call it disappointing in that department.
There's really just one scene where Captain Marvel stands up as a "feminist icon", and it's a scene where a biker heckles her, catcalling her and telling her to "smile more" before leaving in annoyance as she doesn't respond to his advances. She doesn't attack him, she doesn't even respond to him. The only retribution that the man gets is that she steals his bike to drive somewhere. And... that's it. That's the big feminist moment in the film.
Actually, most of the social commentary in the film is just very surface level, not at all meaningful, "Hollywood liberal" dialogue. A particular aspect of the film that really jutted itself out as "Hollywood liberalism" was that the Skrull serve as very bad analogies for refugees and illegal immigrants, but despite the film's seeming support for marginalized groups like them, there's also very in-your-face support for the US Air Force. The United States military, of course, being well known and revered for their overwhelming support of minorities and definitely-not-at-all imperialistic campaigns in the Middle East that totally didn't lead to the refugee crisis to begin with.
But aside from that, the film was a fairly solid 8/10. It definitely isn't the worst film in the MCU. Anyone saying that has clearly never seen Ant Man 2. The Skrulls and Fury both had genuinely funny moments in the film (though Larson always fell flat on her joke delivery), and some moments of the movie actually made me feel tense. It definitely isn't an Infinity War, but I don't think people were expecting that anyways.
As far as power goes, Captain Marvel's physical strength and energy projection can be debated in reference to the Hulk and Thor all day, but that she is overall the most powerful hero is undeniable. Her ending battle in the film has her single-handedly destroy a Kree armada in what is essentially a faster and more casual repeat of what Thor did against Thanos' dropships in Infinity War. After Carol achieves her full power absolutely nothing in the film threatens her, and the rest of her feats are performed very casually.
Speed wise, her blasts were said to be photon based, and nothing contradicts that in the film to my recall. Two characters do dodge the blasts, though they were likely just dodging the trajectory of Carol's fist instead of the beam as they fail to avoid the same blasts at other points in the film. As far as travel is concerned, there is a scene featuring her travelling next to a Skrull ship moving faster than light. However, she flies into the same "hyperspace hexagon" the ship uses as well, so this seems to be just a function of hyperspace instead of her own powers. The ending of the film, where she travels back to Earth after receiving Fury's call, is absolutely faster than light, however. Previous dialogue says that Fury's communication device has a range of over two galaxies(!), and she returns to Earth just weeks after Thanos' snap. If the timeframe between Infinity War and Endgame has been confirmed somewhere this could be used to establish an upper bound to her flight ability.
Concering the Skrulls themselves, they are very inconsistent. Some members die to car crashes and don't seem to be comparable to even Captain America in strength. Other members are strong enough to tank hits from an early Captain Marvel with ease, the same Captain Marvel who was strong enough to ragdoll Skrulls with her strikes. It would seem that average Skrulls aren't much stronger than an athletic human, while "peak" Skrulls should be strong enough to defeat Captain America with an arm tied behind their back.
If anyone has questions, I'd be happy to answer. Though they should come sooner rather than later, before my memory begins to fade.
