According to the seventh edition of the APA Publication Manual, literature reviews "provide narrative summaries and evaluations of the findings or theories within a literature base" (p. 8). They do not systematically review data from studies about the topic/problem, but discuss the trends suggested in the studies. Your literature review should:
Even after using the best search strategies and database filters to narrow your results, you may still have a lot of articles to choose from to use in your literature review. How do you choose the most relevant?
An annotated bibliography basically summarizing individual articles, but when writing a literature review, you are providing an overview of the literature in a particular area of research, which is more complex.
Journal articles are like a conversation where academics publish theories and empirical data and other academics publish their own articles where they may agree, disagree, or be inspired to publish new research that springboards from other articles.
Unlike annotated bibliographies, literature reviews focus on describing the relationships among the literature included in the review, rather than just providing a summary of individual articles.