Language conventions of Little White Lies: Stephen

The typical convention that reviews follow are:

• Context of the film
• Infomation about the protagonist
• key themes/issue and plot
• narrative devices and an evaulation over the use
• use and adaption of genre conventions
• authors experience of the film
• summary sentence

Each review also uses complex language to fully grab the reader and emphasise the points that the author is making. Nouns are often used in all works of literacy, so it's expected to see them in a review. Metaphors are used often to show the authors response to the film, either positive or negative. Complex sentences are used throughout to compress the review into a much smaller size, allowing for more content and less repetition. 

 This is a review that follows Little White Lies' conventions of what a review should look like.
(Ignore formatting as this is taken from the website version. Typical reviews from Little White Lies come in 3 columns.) 

Paragraph 1: An introduction to the film-maker and context to the film.

Paragraph 2: More on the film-maker and also on the themes of the film.

Paragraph 3: More on the film-maker, a bit on the themes of the film and their desired demographic (dad film) and a bit of plot.

Paragraph 4: Introduces main characters of the plot, and their roles.

Paragraph 5: Themes and Genre of the film.

Paragraph 6: About how it conveys its themes and the job the writers played.

Paragraph 7: Steve Neal's repetition and VARIATION mentioned; "see through all that cloak and dagger bullshit", shows a change in the genre of spy films. 

Paragraph 8: Conclusion; "Call it the banality of goodness"- the author (Mentioned at the top instead of at the end, a divert from the written copy of LWL)- it shows that the goodness in the film is overused to a certain extent, however it's a good thing in this case- enforced by the ratings that back it up.